Toy brick in Chinese (Mandarin): 积木 (jīmù)
积木
jīmù
toy brick
- Simplified
- 积木
- Traditional
- 積木
- Pinyin
- jīmù
- Typed as
- jimu
Use it in a sentence
用积木搭一座房子。
用積木搭一座房子。
Build a house with toy bricks.
The characters in 积木
积 / 積
To pile up.
10 strokes
木
Wood. It began as a drawing of a tree.
4 strokes
积木 is "piled-up wood", since toy blocks were first made of wood. Building with them is 搭积木 (dā jīmù).
More examples with 积木
我用积木搭了一座塔。
我用積木搭了一座塔。
Wǒ yòng jīmù dā le yí zuò tǎ.
I built a tower with blocks.
积木倒了。
積木倒了。
Jīmù dǎo le.
The blocks fell down.
How to write 积木 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
积 10 strokes
木 4 strokes
In Traditional characters:
積 16 strokes
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