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运气

yùnqi

luck

A person finding a coin
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Characters in this word

运 yùn

Strokes
7
Radical
辶 — to walk
Made of
辶 to walk 云 cloud
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

气 qì

Strokes
4
Radical
气 — air, gas
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 气

Example phrases

  • 今天运气好。 Jīntiān yùnqi hǎo. I have good luck today.
  • 他运气不错。 Tā yùnqi búcuò. He has pretty good luck.
  • 我的运气来了。 Wǒ de yùnqi lái le. My luck has come.

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