胡 hú
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- 古 old, classic, ancient ⺼ meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
胡同儿
hútòngér
alley
Characters in this word
同 tóng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Made of
- 凡 any, every, all 口 mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
儿 ér
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 儿 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 我住胡同儿。 Wǒ zhù hútòngér. I live in an alley.
- 胡同儿很安静。 Hútòngér hěn ānjìng. The alley is very quiet.
- 这条胡同儿很老。 Zhè tiáo hútòngér hěn lǎo. This alley is very old.