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羽毛球

yǔmáoqiú

badminton; shuttlecock

HSK 5 · Topic “Object handling”
A shuttlecock beside a racket
Memory picture

Characters in this word

羽 yǔ

Strokes
6
Radical
羽 — feather, plume
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 羽

毛 máo

Strokes
4
Radical
毛 — hair, fur, feathers
Made of
乇 to depend on, to entrust with 一 one

球 qiú

Strokes
11
Radical
王 — king, ruler
Made of
王 king, ruler 求 to seek
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 我打羽毛球。 Wǒ dǎ yǔmáoqiú. I play badminton.
  • 羽毛球在包里。 Yǔmáoqiú zài bāo lǐ. The shuttlecock is in the bag.
  • 他爱羽毛球。 Tā ài yǔmáoqiú. He loves badminton.

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