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
字眼
zìyǎn
wording; expression; key word
Characters in this word
眼 yǎn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 目 — eye
- Made of
- 目 eye 艮 blunt
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 报告中的一个字眼若处理不当，可能改变整段政策表述的法律含义。 Bàogào zhōng de yí ge zìyǎn ruò chǔlǐ bùdàng, kěnéng gǎibiàn zhěng duàn zhèngcè biǎoshù de fǎlǜ hányì. If a single word in a report is handled poorly, it may alter the legal meaning of the whole policy statement.
- 换一个字眼，整句话的语气就完全不同了。 Huàn yí ge zìyǎn, zhěng jù huà de yǔqì jiù wánquán bùtóng le. Change just one word and the tone of the whole sentence becomes completely different.
- 消息标题用了个夸张的字眼，引起了很多人的注意。 Xiāoxi biāotí yòng le ge kuāzhāng de zìyǎn, yǐnqǐ le hěn duō rén de zhùyì. The news headline used an exaggerated word and caught many people's attention.