素 sù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 糸 — silk
- Made of
- 龶 growing plant 糸 silk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
素材
sùcái
material; source material
Characters in this word
材 cái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这部纪录片积累了大量一手素材，因此呈现出的细节格外有说服力。 Zhè bù jìlùpiàn jīlěi le dàliàng yìshǒu sùcái, yīncǐ chéngxiàn chū de xìjié géwài yǒu shuōfúlì. This documentary accumulated a large amount of first-hand material, so the details it presents are especially convincing.
- 作家把生活中的小事当成写作素材，慢慢积累成小说。 Zuòjiā bǎ shēnghuó zhōng de xiǎo shì dàngchéng xiězuò sùcái, mànmàn jīlěi chéng xiǎoshuō. The writer takes small things from life as material for writing, slowly accumulating them into a novel.
- 画家从各地收集素材，画册里的风景各有特色。 Huàjiā cóng gèdì shōují sùcái, huàcè lǐ de fēngjǐng gè yǒu tèsè. The painter gathered material from different places; the landscapes in his album each have a distinctive character.
Related words
- 朴素 pǔsù simple, plain
- 素质 sùzhì quality, caliber
- 维生素 wéishēngsù vitamin
- 要素 yàosù essential element, factor
- 元素 yuánsù element
- 激素 jīsù hormone
- 抗生素 kàngshēngsù antibiotic
- 素 sù vegetarian; plain; simple
- 素不相识 sùbùxiāngshí to be complete strangers
- 素食 sùshí vegetarian food; vegetarian diet
- 素养 sùyǎng quality; accomplishment; literacy
- 教材 jiàocái textbook; teaching material