字 zì
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- Made of
- 宀 roof 子 son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
字幕
zìmù
subtitles, captions
Characters in this word
幕 mù
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我喜欢看有字幕的电影，这样能学到很多新词。 Wǒ xǐhuan kàn yǒu zìmù de diànyǐng, zhèyàng néng xuédào hěn duō xīn cí. I like watching films with subtitles, because I can learn a lot of new words that way.
- 字幕出现得太快，我来不及看完。 Zìmù chūxiàn de tài kuài, wǒ láibují kàn wán. The subtitles appear too fast and I don't have time to read them all.
- 把电视的字幕关掉吧，它挡住了画面。 Bǎ diànshì de zìmù guān diào ba, tā dǎng zhù le huàmiàn. Turn off the subtitles on the TV; they are blocking the picture.
Related words
- 汉字 hànzì Chinese character
- 名字 míngzi name
- 字 zì character, word
- 数字 shùzì number; digit
- 字典 zìdiǎn dictionary
- 文字 wénzì written language
- 字母 zìmǔ letter
- 签字 qiānzì to sign
- 数字化 shùzìhuà to digitize
- 赤字 chìzì deficit
- 错别字 cuòbiézì wrongly written or misused character; typo
- 繁体字 fántǐzì traditional Chinese characters