诗 shī
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 寺 court, office
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
诗人
shīrén
poet
Characters in this word
人 rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他是诗人。 Tā shì shī rén. He is a poet.
- 诗人来了。 Shī rén lái le. The poet has come.
- 我喜欢诗人。 Wǒ xǐ huān shī rén. I like poets.