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邮局

yóujú

post office

A post office with a mailbox
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Characters in this word

邮 yóu

Strokes
7
Radical
阝 — place, town, city
Made of
由 cause, reason 阝 place, town, city
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 邮

局 jú

Strokes
7
Radical
尸 — body, corpse
Made of
尺 ruler, tape-measure 口 mouth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 邮局在哪儿? Yóujú zài nǎr? Where is the post office?
  • 我去邮局。 Wǒ qù yóujú. I am heading to the post office.
  • 邮局今天开门。 Yóujú jīntiān kāi mén. The post office is open today.

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