线 xiàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 戋 small, narrow
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
线索
xiànsuǒ
clue
Characters in this word
索 suǒ
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 糸 — silk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 有新线索了。 Yǒu xīn xiànsuǒ le. There is a new clue.
- 线索很少。 Xiànsuǒ hěn shǎo. There are very few clues.
- 他找到线索。 Tā zhǎodào xiànsuǒ. He finds a clue.