包 bāo
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 勹 — wrap
- Made of
- 勹 wrap 巳 snake
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
包裹
bāoguǒ
parcel; package
Characters in this word
裹 guǒ
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 衣 — cloth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 包裹到了。 Bāoguǒ dào le. The package has arrived.
- 我收到包裹。 Wǒ shōudào bāoguǒ. I received a package.
- 这个包裹很重。 Zhège bāoguǒ hěn zhòng. This package is very heavy.