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
胡子
húzi
beard and mustache
Characters in this word
子 zi
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他有胡子。 Tā yǒu húzi. He has a beard.
- 胡子很长。 Húzi hěn cháng. The beard is very long.
- 我剃胡子。 Wǒ tì húzi. I shave my beard.