要 yào
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 覀 — west, western, westward
- Made of
- 覀 west, western, westward 女 woman, girl
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
要点
yàodiǎn
key point
Characters in this word
点 diǎn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 灬 — fire
- Made of
- 占 to divine 灬 fire
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 汇报前，请把这份材料的要点整理成一页纸。 Huìbào qián, qǐng bǎ zhè fèn cáiliào de yàodiǎn zhěnglǐ chéng yí yè zhǐ. Before the presentation, please organise the key points of this material onto one page.
- 老师在黑板上写下了今天课的要点。 Lǎoshī zài hēibǎn shang xiě xià le jīntiān kè de yàodiǎn. The teacher wrote the key points of today's lesson on the blackboard.
- 这篇文章很长，你能说一下它的要点吗？ Zhè piān wénzhāng hěn cháng, nǐ néng shuō yíxià tā de yàodiǎn ma? This article is very long. Can you tell me its key points?