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原料

yuánliào

raw material

HSK 4 · Topic “Materials and forms”
Logs beside an unfinished plank
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Characters in this word

原 yuán

Strokes
10
Radical
厂 — cliff
Made of
厂 cliff 泉 spring, fountain
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 原

料 liào

Strokes
10
Radical
斗 — to struggle, to fight, to contend
Made of
米 rice, millet, grain 斗 to struggle, to fight, to contend
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 料

Example phrases

  • 面粉是原料。 Miànfěn shì yuánliào. Flour is a raw material.
  • 原料很重要。 Yuánliào hěn zhòngyào. Raw materials are very important.
  • 这里有原料。 Zhèlǐ yǒu yuánliào. There are raw materials here.

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