材 cái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
材料
cáiliào
material
Characters in this word
料 liào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 斗 — to struggle, to fight, to contend
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 材料在桌上。 Cáiliào zài zhuō shàng. The materials are on the table.
- 我买材料。 Wǒ mǎi cáiliào. I buy materials.
- 这些材料新。 Zhèxiē cáiliào xīn. These materials are new.