摄 shè
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 聂 to whisper
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
摄像机
shèxiàngjī
video camera
Characters in this word
像 xiàng
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 象 elephant
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
机 jī
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 摄像机坏了。 Shè xiàng jī huài le. The video camera is broken.
- 我有摄像机。 Wǒ yǒu shè xiàng jī. I have a video camera.
- 他拿摄像机。 Tā ná shè xiàng jī. He is holding a video camera.