食 shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 食 — food
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
食堂
shítáng
cafeteria
Characters in this word
堂 táng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我去食堂吃饭。 Wǒ qù shítáng chīfàn. I go to the cafeteria to eat.
- 食堂今天很忙。 Shítáng jīntiān hěn máng. The cafeteria is very busy today.
- 食堂有热汤。 Shítáng yǒu rè tāng. The cafeteria has hot soup.