登 dēng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 癶 — legs
- Made of
- 癶 legs 豆 beans, peas
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
登山
dēngshān
to climb a mountain
Characters in this word
山 shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 — mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 周末去登山。 Zhōumò qù dēngshān. Let us go mountain climbing this weekend.
- 我喜欢登山。 Wǒ xǐhuan dēngshān. I like mountain climbing.
- 登山很累。 Dēngshān hěn lèi. Mountain climbing is very tiring.