港 gǎng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 巷 alley, lane
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
港口
gǎngkǒu
port
Characters in this word
口 kǒu
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 这个港口经过改造后，货物吞吐能力大幅提升。 Zhège gǎngkǒu jīngguò gǎizào hòu, huòwù tūntǔ nénglì dàfú tíshēng. After this port was renovated, its cargo handling capacity increased substantially.
- 渔船傍晚都回到了港口，码头上很热闹。 Yúchuán bàngwǎn dōu huídào le gǎngkǒu, mǎtóu shàng hěn rènao. The fishing boats all returned to the harbour in the evening, and the dock was lively.
- 他们的船明天早上从这个港口出发。 Tāmen de chuán míngtiān zǎoshang cóng zhège gǎngkǒu chūfā. Their ship leaves from this port tomorrow morning.