简 jiǎn
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 间 between, among
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
简化
jiǎnhuà
to simplify
Characters in this word
化 huà
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 匕 — spoon, ladle
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 匕 spoon, ladle
Example phrases
- 为了提高效率，公司决定简化审批流程。 Wèile tígāo xiàolǜ, gōngsī juédìng jiǎnhuà shěnpī liúchéng. To improve efficiency, the company decided to simplify the approval process.
- 新软件把复杂的操作简化成了三步。 Xīn ruǎnjiàn bǎ fùzá de cāozuò jiǎnhuà chéng le sān bù. The new software has simplified a complicated operation into three steps.
- 这篇文章把长句子简化后，更容易读懂了。 Zhè piān wénzhāng bǎ cháng jùzi jiǎnhuà hòu, gèng róngyì dúdǒng le. After the long sentences in this article were simplified, it became easier to understand.
Related words
- 简单 jiǎndān simple; easy
- 简直 jiǎnzhí simply; practically
- 简历 jiǎnlì resume
- 简介 jiǎnjiè to introduce briefly; brief introduction
- 简称 jiǎnchēng abbreviation; to be abbreviated as
- 简短 jiǎnduǎn brief; short
- 简洁 jiǎnjié concise; succinct; simple and clear
- 简练 jiǎnliàn concise and polished
- 简陋 jiǎnlòu simple and crude; shabby
- 简体字 jiǎntǐzì simplified Chinese characters
- 简要 jiǎnyào brief; concise
- 简易 jiǎnyì simple; easy; makeshift