水 shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 水 — water, liquid, lotion, juice
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
水龙头
shuǐlóngtóu
tap; faucet
Characters in this word
龙 lóng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 龙 — dragon
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
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
- 离开实验室前，请确认水龙头和燃气阀门都已经关闭。 Líkāi shíyànshì qián, qǐng quèrèn shuǐlóngtóu hé ránqì fámén dōu yǐjīng guānbì. Before leaving the laboratory, please confirm that the taps and gas valves have all been turned off.
- 厨房的水龙头又漏水了，得找个师傅来修。 Chúfáng de shuǐlóngtóu yòu lòushuǐ le, děi zhǎo gè shīfu lái xiū. The kitchen faucet is leaking again; we need to find a repairman to fix it.
- 他打开水龙头，先用热水洗了洗手上的油渍。 Tā dǎkāi shuǐlóngtóu, xiān yòng rèshuǐ xǐ le xǐ shǒu shang de yóuzì. He turned on the tap and first washed the grease off his hands with hot water.