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抽奖

chōujiǎng

to draw a prize

A person drawing a folded slip
Memory picture

Characters in this word

抽 chōu

Strokes
8
Radical
扌 — hand
Made of
扌 hand 由 cause, reason
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

奖 jiǎng

Strokes
9
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 今天有抽奖。 Jīn tiān yǒu chōu jiǎng. There is a prize draw today.
  • 我想抽奖。 Wǒ xiǎng chōu jiǎng. I want to join the prize draw.
  • 抽奖开始了。 Chōu jiǎng kāi shǐ le. The prize draw has started.

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