政 zhèng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 正 straight, right, proper, correct, just, true 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
政治
zhèngzhì
politics
Characters in this word
治 zhì
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 台 platform
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我不谈政治。 Wǒ bù tán zhèngzhì. I do not talk about politics.
- 他学习政治。 Tā xuéxí zhèngzhì. He studies politics.
- 政治课很难。 Zhèngzhì kè hěn nán. Politics class is hard.