罐 guàn
- Strokes
- 23
- Radical
- 缶 — earthen crock or jar
- Made of
- 缶 earthen crock or jar 雚 heron
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
罐头
guàntou
canned food; tin/can
Characters in this word
头 tóu
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- Made of
- ⺀ ice 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 灾区道路中断后，最先送达的不是热饭，而是能长期保存的罐头和饮用水。 Zāiqū dàolù zhōngduàn hòu, zuìxiān sòngdá de bú shì rèfàn, ér shì néng chángqī bǎocún de guàntou hé yǐnyòngshuǐ. After roads to the disaster area were cut off, the first supplies to arrive were not hot meals, but canned food and drinking water that could be stored for a long time.
- 超市里的水果罐头正在打折。 Chāoshì lǐ de shuǐguǒ guàntou zhèngzài dǎzhé. The canned fruit in the supermarket is on sale.
- 我们野餐的时候带了几个鱼罐头。 Wǒmen yěcān de shíhou dài le jǐ gè yú guàntou. We brought a few cans of fish on our picnic.