手 shǒu
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 手 — hand
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
手臂
shǒubì
arm
Characters in this word
臂 bì
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- 辟 law, rule ⺼ meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 连续搬了一下午箱子，他的手臂酸得几乎抬不起来。 Liánxù bān le yí xiàwǔ xiāngzi, tā de shǒubì suān de jīhū tái bu qǐlái. After carrying boxes all afternoon, his arms were so sore that he could hardly lift them.
- 他举起手臂，向远处的朋友打招呼。 Tā jǔqǐ shǒubì, xiàng yuǎnchù de péngyou dǎ zhāohu. He raised his arm and greeted a friend in the distance.
- 孩子的手臂不小心被树枝划了一下。 Háizi de shǒubì bù xiǎoxīn bèi shùzhī huá le yíxià. The child's arm was accidentally scratched by a branch.