核 hé
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 木 tree 亥 12th terrestrial branch
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
核电站
hédiànzhàn
nuclear power plant
Characters in this word
电 diàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 曰 — to speak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 该核电站采用双重冷却系统，以降低极端天气下的运行风险。 Gāi hédiànzhàn cǎiyòng shuāngchóng lěngquè xìtǒng, yǐ jiàngdī jíduān tiānqì xià de yùnxíng fēngxiǎn. This nuclear power plant uses a dual cooling system to reduce operating risks under extreme weather.
- 这座核电站建在海边，用海水来冷却。 Zhè zuò hédiànzhàn jiàn zài hǎibiān, yòng hǎishuǐ lái lěngquè. This nuclear power plant is built by the sea and uses seawater for cooling.
- 我叔叔在核电站工作，每天坐班车上下班。 Wǒ shūshu zài hédiànzhàn gōngzuò, měitiān zuò bānchē shàngxiàbān. My uncle works at a nuclear power plant and takes the shuttle bus to and from work every day.
Related words
- 考核 kǎohé assessment
- 核心 héxīn core
- 核 hé nucleus; nuclear
- 核查 héchá to verify; to investigate; to check
- 核对 héduì to check against; to verify by comparison
- 核能 hénéng nuclear energy
- 核实 héshí to verify; to check
- 核桃 hétao walnut
- 核武器 héwǔqì nuclear weapon
- 审核 shěnhé to review; to verify
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 电 diàn electricity