一 yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
一系列
yíxìliè
a series of
Characters in this word
系 xì
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 糸 — silk
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
列 liè
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 歹 corpse 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 政府推出了一系列措施，以缓解住房压力。 Zhèngfǔ tuīchū le yíxìliè cuòshī, yǐ huǎnjiě zhùfáng yālì. The government introduced a series of measures to ease housing pressure.
- 为了办好这次活动，我们做了一系列准备工作。 Wèile bàn hǎo zhè cì huódòng, wǒmen zuò le yíxìliè zhǔnbèi gōngzuò. To make this event a success, we did a series of preparations.
- 这位作家写了一系列关于动物的儿童故事。 Zhè wèi zuòjiā xiě le yíxìliè guānyú dòngwù de értóng gùshì. This writer wrote a series of children's stories about animals.
Related words
- 一 yī one
- 一半 yíbàn half
- 一会儿 yíhuìr a moment, a little while
- 一块儿 yíkuàir together
- 一下儿 yíxiàr a bit, briefly (after a verb)
- 一样 yíyàng the same, alike
- 一边 yìbiān one side; while (doing two things at once)
- 一点儿 yìdiǎnr a little, a bit
- 一起 yìqǐ together
- 一些 yìxiē some, a few
- 不一定 bùyídìng not necessarily
- 不一会儿 bùyíhuìr in a short while