舌 shé
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 舌 — tongue
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
舌头
shétou
tongue
Characters in this word
头 tóu
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- Made of
- ⺀ ice 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他喝汤太急，把舌头烫了一下。 Tā hē tāng tài jí, bǎ shétou tàng le yí xià. He drank the soup too quickly and burned his tongue.
- 医生看了看我的舌头，说我有点上火。 Yīshēng kàn le kàn wǒ de shétou, shuō wǒ yǒudiǎn shànghuǒ. The doctor looked at my tongue and said I was a little overheated.
- 小狗热得张着嘴，吐出了舌头。 Xiǎogǒu rè de zhāngzhe zuǐ, tǔ chū le shétou. The puppy was so hot that it opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue.