胖 pàng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- ⺼ meat, flesh 半 half
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
胖子
pàngzi
fat person
Characters in this word
子 zi
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他是个胖子。 Tā shì ge pàng zi. He is a fat person.
- 胖子也很可爱。 Pàng zi yě hěn kě ài. Fat people can be cute too.
- 那个胖子在笑。 Nà ge pàng zi zài xiào. That fat person is laughing.