滑 huá
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 骨 bone
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
滑行
huáxíng
to glide, to slide
Characters in this word
行 xíng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 行 — to go, to walk, to move
- Made of
- 彳 to step with the left foot 亍 to take small steps
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 飞机降落后在跑道上继续滑行，直到地勤人员发出引导信号。 Fēijī jiàngluò hòu zài pǎodào shàng jìxù huáxíng, zhídào dìqín rényuán fāchū yǐndǎo xìnhào. After landing, the plane continued to taxi along the runway until the ground crew gave a guiding signal.
- 小船在平静的湖面上慢慢滑行。 Xiǎochuán zài píngjìng de húmiàn shàng mànmàn huáxíng. The little boat glides slowly across the calm surface of the lake.
- 他不再蹬车，自行车顺着坡自己向前滑行。 Tā bù zài dēng chē, zìxíngchē shùnzhe pō zìjǐ xiàng qián huáxíng. He stopped pedalling, and the bicycle coasted forward down the slope by itself.
Related words
- 滑 huá slippery
- 滑冰 huábīng to skate
- 滑雪 huáxuě to ski
- 光滑 guānghuá smooth; glossy
- 滑稽 huájī comic; ridiculous; funny
- 滑梯 huátī slide; playground slide
- 下滑 xiàhuá to decline; to slide downward
- 行 xíng OK, all right; to go
- 不行 bùxíng not okay; cannot
- 进行 jìnxíng to be in progress; to carry out
- 举行 jǔxíng to hold an event
- 流行 liúxíng popular; fashionable