平 píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
平原
píngyuán
plain
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
- 这里是平原。 Zhèlǐ shì píngyuán. This is a plain.
- 平原上有村子。 Píngyuán shàng yǒu cūnzi. There is a village on the plain.
- 我住在平原。 Wǒ zhù zài píngyuán. I live on a plain.