简 jiǎn
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 间 between, among
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
简体字
jiǎntǐzì
simplified Chinese characters
Characters in this word
字 zì
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- Made of
- 宀 roof 子 son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 她从小读繁体字，后来为了在内地工作，又系统学习了简体字。 Tā cóng xiǎo dú fántǐzì, hòulái wèile zài nèidì gōngzuò, yòu xìtǒng xuéxí le jiǎntǐzì. She grew up reading traditional characters, and later systematically learnt simplified characters for work on the mainland.
- 大陆的书和报纸大多用简体字印刷。 Dàlù de shū hé bàozhǐ dàduō yòng jiǎntǐzì yìnshuā. Books and newspapers on the mainland are mostly printed in simplified characters.
- 外国学生一般先学简体字，再学繁体字。 Wàiguó xuésheng yìbān xiān xué jiǎntǐzì, zài xué fántǐzì. Foreign students generally learn simplified characters first and traditional ones afterwards.
Related words
- 简单 jiǎndān simple; easy
- 简直 jiǎnzhí simply; practically
- 简历 jiǎnlì resume
- 简化 jiǎnhuà to simplify
- 简介 jiǎnjiè to introduce briefly; brief introduction
- 简称 jiǎnchēng abbreviation; to be abbreviated as
- 简短 jiǎnduǎn brief; short
- 简洁 jiǎnjié concise; succinct; simple and clear
- 简练 jiǎnliàn concise and polished
- 简陋 jiǎnlòu simple and crude; shabby
- 简要 jiǎnyào brief; concise
- 简易 jiǎnyì simple; easy; makeshift