gòu

to construct

to form; to make up; to compose; literary composition; paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

Wood (木) + hook/shape (勾) = to construct

The wood radical grounds this character in timber and carpentry — to construct is literally to work with wood into form. 勾 mainly supplies the sound gòu; the building sense comes from 木.

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WoodSemantic

这座桥是用钢铁成的。

zhè zuò qiáo shì yòng gāngtiě gòu chéng de。

This bridge is made up of steel.

他花了很长时间思这篇文章。

tā huā le hěn cháng shíjiān gòusī zhè piān wénzhāng。

He spent a long time constructing the ideas for this article.

Words with 构

重构

chóng gòu

to reconstruct

金融机构

jīn róng jī gòu

financial institution

中国国家原子能机构

zhōng guó guó jiā yuán zǐ néng jī gòu

China Atomic Energy Agency (CAEA)

主谓结构

zhǔ wèi jié gòu

subject-predicate construction

代数结构

dài shù jié gòu

algebraic structure

传动机构

chuán dòng jī gòu

transmission mechanism

分布式结构

fēn bù shì jié gòu

distributed architecture

向壁虚构

xiàng bì xū gòu

facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication

同分异构

tóng fēn yì gòu

isomerism (chemistry)

同分异构体

tóng fēn yì gòu tǐ

isomer (chemistry)

同构

tóng gòu

isomorphism

商业机构

shāng yè jī gòu

commercial organization

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