壁 bì
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
壁画
bìhuà
mural; wall painting
Characters in this word
画 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 田 — field, farm, arable land
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 古寺墙上的壁画虽然颜色脱落，人物神态依然清晰可辨。 Gǔsì qiáng shàng de bìhuà suīrán yánsè tuōluò, rénwù shéntài yīrán qīngxī kě biàn. Although the colours of the murals on the ancient temple walls have faded, the figures' expressions are still clearly recognisable.
- 洞窟里的壁画已经有一千多年的历史了。 Dòngkū lǐ de bìhuà yǐjīng yǒu yì qiān duō nián de lìshǐ le. The murals in the cave are already more than a thousand years old.
- 画家正站在梯子上，给学校的外墙画一幅壁画。 Huàjiā zhèng zhàn zài tīzi shàng, gěi xuéxiào de wàiqiáng huà yì fú bìhuà. The painter is standing on a ladder, painting a mural on the school's outer wall.