牛 niú
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 牛 — ox, cow, bull
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
牛仔裤
niúzǎikù
jeans
Characters in this word
仔 zǎi
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 子 son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
裤 kù
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 衤 — cloth
- Made of
- 衤 cloth 库 armory, treasury, warehouse
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我穿牛仔裤。 Wǒ chuān niúzǎikù. I wear jeans.
- 牛仔裤很新。 Niúzǎikù hěn xīn. The jeans are very new.
- 这条牛仔裤贵。 Zhè tiáo niúzǎikù guì. This pair of jeans is expensive.