长 cháng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 长 — long, lasting
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
长途
chángtú
long-distance
Characters in this word
途 tú
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 余 surplus, remainder
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 长途车来了。 Chángtú chē lái le. The long-distance bus is here.
- 我坐长途车。 Wǒ zuò chángtú chē. I take a long-distance bus.
- 长途旅行很累。 Chángtú lǚxíng hěn lèi. Long-distance travel is very tiring.