香 xiāng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 香 — incense
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 日 sun
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
香肠
xiāngcháng
sausage
Characters in this word
肠 cháng
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- ⺼ meat, flesh 昜 bright, glorious
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我爱吃香肠。 Wǒ ài chī xiāngcháng. I love eating sausage.
- 香肠很好吃。 Xiāngcháng hěn hǎochī. The sausage is very tasty.
- 买两根香肠。 Mǎi liǎng gēn xiāngcháng. Buy two sausages.