格 gé
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
格外
géwài
especially
Characters in this word
外 wài
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- Made of
- 夕 evening, night, dusk 卜 divination, fortune-telling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 今天格外冷。 Jīntiān géwài lěng. It is unusually cold today.
- 她格外开心。 Tā géwài kāixīn. She is especially happy.
- 这里格外安静。 Zhèlǐ géwài ānjìng. It is especially quiet here.