半 bàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- Made of
- 丷 horns 牛 ox, cow, bull
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
半导体
bàndǎotǐ
semiconductor
Characters in this word
导 dǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 寸 — inch
- Made of
- 巳 snake 寸 inch
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 全球供应链一旦在半导体环节受阻，汽车、手机乃至医疗设备都会受到影响。 Quánqiú gōngyìngliàn yídàn zài bàndǎotǐ huánjié shòuzǔ, qìchē, shǒujī nǎizhì yīliáo shèbèi dōu huì shòudào yǐngxiǎng. If the global supply chain is blocked at the semiconductor stage, cars, phones and even medical equipment will be affected.
- 手机和电脑里的芯片都是用半导体材料做成的。 Shǒujī hé diànnǎo lǐ de xīnpiàn dōu shì yòng bàndǎotǐ cáiliào zuò chéng de. The chips in phones and computers are all made from semiconductor materials.
- 他在一家半导体公司做工程师，每天都要加班。 Tā zài yì jiā bàndǎotǐ gōngsī zuò gōngchéngshī, měitiān dōu yào jiābān. He works as an engineer at a semiconductor company and has to work overtime every day.
Related words
- 半 bàn half
- 半年 bànnián half a year
- 半天 bàntiān half a day
- 一半 yíbàn half
- 半夜 bànyè midnight; late at night
- 半边天 bànbiāntiān women; half the sky
- 半岛 bàndǎo peninsula
- 半径 bànjìng radius
- 半数 bànshù half; half the number
- 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi to give up halfway
- 半信半疑 bànxìnbànyí half-believing, half-doubting; sceptical
- 多半 duōbàn most; for the most part; probably