老 lǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 老 — old, aged
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
老家
lǎojiā
hometown; family home
Characters in this word
家 jiā
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 豕 pig, boar
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我回老家。 Wǒ huí lǎo jiā. I go back to my hometown.
- 老家在北方。 Lǎo jiā zài běi fāng. My hometown is in the north.
- 她老家很远。 Tā lǎo jiā hěn yuǎn. Her hometown is very far away.