翻 fān
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 羽 — feather, plume
- Made of
- 番 to take turns, to repeat 羽 feather, plume
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
翻译
fānyì
to translate; translator
Characters in this word
译 yì
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 请翻译一下。 Qǐng fānyì yí xià. Please translate this for me.
- 她是翻译。 Tā shì fānyì. She is a translator.
- 我会翻译。 Wǒ huì fānyì. I can translate.