燃 rán
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 火 — fire, flame
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
燃料
ránliào
fuel
Characters in this word
料 liào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 斗 — to struggle, to fight, to contend
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 车里没有燃料。 Chē lǐ méiyǒu rán liào. There is no fuel in the car.
- 燃料快用完了。 Rán liào kuài yòng wán le. The fuel is almost used up.
- 这种燃料很贵。 Zhè zhǒng rán liào hěn guì. This kind of fuel is very expensive.