水 shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 水 — water, liquid, lotion, juice
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
水稻
shuǐdào
unhusked rice
Characters in this word
稻 dào
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 舀 to ladle out
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 南方许多地区依靠水稻种植维持生计。 Nánfāng xǔduō dìqū yīkào shuǐdào zhòngzhí wéichí shēngjì. Many regions in the south rely on rice cultivation to make a living.
- 秋天到了，田里的水稻变成了金黄色。 Qiūtiān dào le, tián lǐ de shuǐdào biànchéng le jīnhuángsè. Autumn has come, and the rice in the fields has turned golden yellow.
- 这种水稻需要很多水，所以多种在雨水多的地方。 Zhè zhǒng shuǐdào xūyào hěn duō shuǐ, suǒyǐ duō zhòng zài yǔshuǐ duō de dìfang. This kind of rice needs a lot of water, so it is mostly grown where it rains a lot.