水 shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 水 — water, liquid, lotion, juice
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
水泥
shuǐní
cement
Characters in this word
泥 ní
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 尼 Buddhist nun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 新铺的水泥还没有完全干，行人暂时不能通过。 Xīn pū de shuǐní hái méiyǒu wánquán gān, xíngrén zànshí bù néng tōngguò. The newly laid cement is not completely dry yet, so pedestrians cannot pass through for the time being.
- 工人们正在用水泥把墙面抹平。 Gōngrénmen zhèngzài yòng shuǐní bǎ qiángmiàn mǒpíng. The workers are smoothing the wall with cement.
- 这条路是水泥铺的，下雨天也不容易滑。 Zhè tiáo lù shì shuǐní pū de, xià yǔ tiān yě bù róngyì huá. This road is paved with cement, so it is not slippery even on rainy days.