放 fàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 方 square, rectangle 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
放飞
fàngfēi
to fly freely
Characters in this word
飞 fēi
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 飞 — to fly, to dart
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 孩子们在草地上放飞风筝，笑声传得很远。 Háizimen zài cǎodì shàng fàngfēi fēngzhēng, xiàoshēng chuán de hěn yuǎn. The children flew kites on the grass, and their laughter carried far.
- 他打开笼子，把养好伤的小鸟放飞了。 Tā dǎkāi lóngzi, bǎ yǎng hǎo shāng de xiǎoniǎo fàngfēi le. He opened the cage and set the little bird, whose wound had healed, free to fly.
- 毕业典礼上，同学们放飞了许多气球。 Bìyè diǎnlǐ shàng, tóngxuémen fàngfēi le xǔduō qìqiú. At the graduation ceremony, the students released many balloons into the air.
Related words
- 放 fàng to put, to place
- 放假 fàngjià to have a holiday
- 放学 fàngxué to finish classes (for the day)
- 放下 fàngxia to put down
- 放心 fàngxīn to feel at ease; to not worry
- 播放 bōfàng to play; to broadcast
- 放到 fàngdào to put in; to put onto
- 开放 kāifàng to open; to bloom
- 放松 fàngsōng to relax
- 放大 fàngdà to enlarge
- 放弃 fàngqì to give up
- 解放 jiěfàng to liberate; liberation