不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
不停
bùtíng
nonstop
Characters in this word
停 tíng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 亭 pavilion
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 雨不停地下。 Yǔ bù tíng de xià. The rain falls nonstop.
- 他不停地说。 Tā bù tíng de shuō. He talks nonstop.
- 车不停地开。 Chē bù tíng de kāi. The car drives nonstop.