拜 bài
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
拜访
bàifǎng
to visit
Characters in this word
访 fǎng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 方 square, rectangle
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我去拜访老师。 Wǒ qù bàifǎng lǎoshī. I go to visit the teacher.
- 他们拜访朋友。 Tāmen bàifǎng péngyou. They visit a friend.
- 明天拜访你。 Míngtiān bàifǎng nǐ. I will visit you tomorrow.