原 yuán
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 厂 — cliff
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
原材料
yuáncáiliào
raw material
Characters in this word
材 cái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
料 liào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 斗 — to struggle, to fight, to contend
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这家工厂主要依赖进口原材料，因此成本容易受汇率影响。 Zhè jiā gōngchǎng zhǔyào yīlài jìnkǒu yuáncáiliào, yīncǐ chéngběn róngyì shòu huìlǜ yǐngxiǎng. This factory mainly relies on imported raw materials, so its costs are easily affected by exchange rates.
- 面粉是做面包最重要的原材料。 Miànfěn shì zuò miànbāo zuì zhòngyào de yuáncáiliào. Flour is the most important raw material for making bread.
- 工人们正在仓库里搬运新到的原材料。 Gōngrénmen zhèngzài cāngkù lǐ bānyùn xīn dào de yuáncáiliào. Workers are moving the newly arrived raw materials in the warehouse.
Related words
- 原来 yuánlái so it was; originally
- 原因 yuányīn reason
- 原料 yuánliào raw material
- 原则 yuánzé principle
- 草原 cǎoyuán grassland
- 高原 gāoyuán plateau
- 平原 píngyuán plain
- 原理 yuánlǐ principle
- 原始 yuánshǐ original; primitive
- 原先 yuánxiān formerly; originally
- 原有 yuányǒu original; existing before
- 还原 huányuán to restore, to return to original state