瓷 cí
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 瓦 — tile
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
瓷器
cíqì
porcelain
Characters in this word
器 qì
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 博物馆展出的那批瓷器保存完好，釉色至今仍十分鲜亮。 Bówùguǎn zhǎnchū de nà pī cíqì bǎocún wánhǎo, yòusè zhìjīn réng shífēn xiānliàng. The porcelain pieces exhibited by the museum are well preserved, and their glaze remains very bright to this day.
- 这套瓷器很漂亮，但是一不小心就会摔碎。 Zhè tào cíqì hěn piàoliang, dànshì yí bù xiǎoxīn jiù huì shuāisuì. This set of porcelain is beautiful, but it breaks if you are not careful.
- 妈妈把外婆留下的瓷器小心地放进柜子里。 Māma bǎ wàipó liúxià de cíqì xiǎoxīn de fàng jìn guìzi lǐ. Mom carefully put the porcelain that Grandma left behind into the cabinet.