磁 cí
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 石 — stone, rock, mineral
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
磁带
cídài
cassette tape; magnetic tape
Characters in this word
带 dài
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这盒磁带里保存着他父亲年轻时录下的讲座。 Zhè hé cídài lǐ bǎocún zhe tā fùqīn niánqīng shí lù xià de jiǎngzuò. This cassette tape preserves a lecture recorded by his father when he was young.
- 爸爸的抽屉里还放着一堆旧磁带。 Bàba de chōuti lǐ hái fàng zhe yì duī jiù cídài. A pile of old cassette tapes is still in Dad's drawer.
- 以前学英语，我们都是听磁带练习发音。 Yǐqián xué Yīngyǔ, wǒmen dōu shì tīng cídài liànxí fāyīn. In the past, when learning English, we all listened to cassette tapes to practise pronunciation.