童 tóng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 立 — to stand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
童话
tónghuà
fairy tale
Characters in this word
话 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 舌 tongue
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我爱听童话。 Wǒ ài tīng tónghuà. I love listening to fairy tales.
- 这是童话书。 Zhè shì tónghuà shū. This is a fairy tale book.
- 妈妈讲童话。 Māma jiǎng tónghuà. Mom tells a fairy tale.
Related words
- 儿童 értóng children
- 童年 tóngnián childhood
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 电话 diànhuà telephone; phone call
- 话 huà speech, words
- 说话 shuōhuà to talk, to speak
- 的话 dehuà if (after a condition)
- 对话 duìhuà dialogue
- 讲话 jiǎnghuà to speak; to talk
- 普通话 pǔtōnghuà Standard Mandarin
- 笑话 xiàohuà joke
- 笑话儿 xiàohuàér joke; silly talk