光 guāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 — son, child
- Made of
- ⺌ small 兀 weak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
光缆
guānglǎn
fibre-optic cable
Characters in this word
缆 lǎn
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 览 to look over, to inspect, to view, to perceive
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 海底光缆一旦受损，跨洲通信的稳定性就会受到严重影响。 Hǎidǐ guānglǎn yídàn shòusǔn, kuàzhōu tōngxìn de wěndìng xìng jiù huì shòudào yánzhòng yǐngxiǎng. Once an undersea fibre-optic cable is damaged, the stability of intercontinental communication will be seriously affected.
- 工人们正在路边铺设新的光缆。 Gōngrénmen zhèngzài lù biān pūshè xīn de guānglǎn. Workers are laying new fibre-optic cable by the roadside.
- 村里装了光缆以后，上网速度快多了。 Cūn lǐ zhuāng le guānglǎn yǐhòu, shàngwǎng sùdù kuài duō le. Since fibre-optic cable was installed in the village, internet speeds are much faster.