资 zī
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
资源
zīyuán
resources
Characters in this word
源 yuán
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 原 source, origin, beginning
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 水是资源。 Shuǐ shì zīyuán. Water is a resource.
- 资源很重要。 Zīyuán hěn zhòngyào. Resources are very important.
- 我们省资源。 Wǒmen shěng zīyuán. We save resources.