高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高铁
gāotiě
high-speed train
Characters in this word
铁 tiě
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 钅 — gold, metal
- Made of
- 钅 gold, metal 失 to lose
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我坐高铁。 Wǒ zuò gāotiě. I take the high-speed train.
- 高铁很快。 Gāotiě hěn kuài. The high-speed train is very fast.
- 高铁到了。 Gāotiě dào le. The high-speed train has arrived.