气 qì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 气 — air, gas
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
气象
qìxiàng
weather
Characters in this word
象 xiàng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 豕 — pig, boar
- Made of
- ⺈ knife 口 mouth 豕 pig, boar
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 气象预报来了。 Qìxiàng yùbào lái le. The weather report comes out.
- 我看气象新闻。 Wǒ kàn qìxiàng xīnwén. I watch weather news.
- 气象变化很快。 Qìxiàng biànhuà hěn kuài. The weather changes very quickly.