高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高原
gāoyuán
plateau
Characters in this word
原 yuán
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 厂 — cliff
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 高原很美。 Gāoyuán hěn měi. The plateau is very beautiful.
- 我去高原。 Wǒ qù gāoyuán. I go to the plateau.
- 高原空气好。 Gāoyuán kōngqì hǎo. The air on the plateau is good.