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
核武器
héwǔqì
nuclear weapon
Characters in this word
武 wǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 止 — to stop, to halt
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
器 qì
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 核武器的存在使国际安全体系长期处于高度紧张之中。 Héwǔqì de cúnzài shǐ guójì ānquán tǐxì chángqī chǔyú gāodù jǐnzhāng zhī zhōng. The existence of nuclear weapons keeps the international security system in a long-term state of high tension.
- 许多人希望世界上不再有核武器。 Xǔduō rén xīwàng shìjiè shang bú zài yǒu héwǔqì. Many people hope there will be no more nuclear weapons in the world.
- 老师在课上讲了核武器带来的巨大危险。 Lǎoshī zài kè shang jiǎng le héwǔqì dàilái de jùdà wēixiǎn. The teacher spoke in class about the huge danger that nuclear weapons bring.
Related words
- 考核 kǎohé assessment
- 核心 héxīn core
- 核 hé nucleus; nuclear
- 核查 héchá to verify; to investigate; to check
- 核电站 hédiànzhàn nuclear power plant
- 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
- 审核 shěnhé to review; to verify
- 武器 wǔqì weapon
- 武术 wǔshù martial arts