礼 lǐ
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 礻 — spirit
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
礼拜
lǐbài
week
Characters in this word
拜 bài
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 下礼拜见。 Xià lǐbài jiàn. See you the following week.
- 礼拜天忙。 Lǐbài tiān máng. Sunday is busy.
- 这个礼拜累。 Zhè ge lǐbài lèi. This week is tiring.