人 rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
人行道
rénxíngdào
sidewalk
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
道 dào
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 首 chief, head, leader
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 施工期间，学校门口的人行道被临时封闭，学生只能从旁边绕行。 Shīgōng qījiān, xuéxiào ménkǒu de rénxíngdào bèi línshí fēngbì, xuésheng zhǐ néng cóng pángbiān ràoxíng. During construction, the pavement outside the school was temporarily closed, so students had to go round the side.
- 请走人行道，不要在马路中间走。 Qǐng zǒu rénxíngdào, bú yào zài mǎlù zhōngjiān zǒu. Please use the sidewalk and don't walk in the middle of the road.
- 人行道两边种着一排排高大的树。 Rénxíngdào liǎngbiān zhòng zhe yì pái pái gāodà de shù. Rows of tall trees are planted along both sides of the sidewalk.