山 shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 — mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
山区
shānqū
mountain area
Characters in this word
区 qū
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 匸 — box
- Made of
- 匸 box 乂 to govern
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 山区很安静。 Shānqū hěn ānjìng. The mountain area is very quiet.
- 我住在山区。 Wǒ zhù zài shānqū. I live in a mountain area.
- 山区路很长。 Shānqū lù hěn cháng. The roads in the mountain area are long.