Word and Radical Components of 肥料

The Chinese word 肥料 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
肥料	féiliào	1. n. fertilizer

肥料 ⇨ 肥 + 料

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
肥	féi	1. fat; plump; obese (adjective)
		農場裡的小豬長zhǎng 得de 肥-肥的，好可愛。 - The pigs in the farm are quite plump, very cute.
		一時嫌人肥，一時嫌人瘦，都唔知點好。 - Sometimes, I'm criticized for being fat, while other times, I'm criticized for being skinny. I don't know what to do.
		2. fat; fatness (noun)
		減肥 - to lose weight -
		3. fertile
		4. fertiliser
		化肥 - chemical fertilizer -
		氮肥 - nitrogenous fertilizer -
		施肥 - to apply fertilizer -
		5. (usually derogatory) benefit; advantage; gain
		6. =====Usage notes=====
		7. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fail (a test)
		8. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fail (someone) in a test
料	liào	1. to anticipate; to predict; to foresee; to expect
		2. to oversee; to manage; to deal with
		3. material; matter; substance
		4. ingredient; constituent; component
		5. material (person or thing suited for a certain purpose); makings
		他不是當兵的料。 - He is not born to be a soldier.
		6. (Cantonese) information
	liáo	7. Alternative form of 撩 (to tease; to provoke)
		8. (Hakka) Alternative form of 嫽 (-)

肥 ⇨ 月 + 巴

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
月	yuè	1. (literary or dialectal) moon
		2. moon-shaped objects
		3. (literary) moonlight
		4. month
		Synonyms: 月份, wuu:號頭
		5. monthly
		月薪 - yuèxīn - monthly wage
		6. Variant of 肉
		7. Variant of 夕
		8. Variant of 明
巴	bā	1. (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
		2. to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
		3. (Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.)
		尾巴ba - tail
		下巴ba - chin
		4. (Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.)
		泥巴ba - mud
		5. to cling to; to stick to
		6. (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuan, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
		7. (Beijing, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
		8. (Sichuan) to suit; to fit
		9. (Sichuan) to follow
		10. (Sichuan) to be intimate
		11. (Sichuan) to involve; to implicate
		12. (Sichuan) to kiss up; to curry favour
		13. (Sichuan) to subsidize
		14. (Sichuan) to infect; to contract
		15. (dialectal Mandarin, including, Beijing, Shandong, Xinjiang) to sew; to stitch on
		16. (Southwestern Mandarin, ;, Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan) dried object
		17. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese)
		打佢一巴 - to give him a slap
		18. (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuan) along
		19. (historical) (place, zh, ancient state, in modern-day, p/Sichuan, t1=Ba)
		20. eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
		21. Short for 巴士, bus
		小巴 - minibus -
		22. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)
		23. (Cantonese) bar (solid object)
		電巴 - busbar -
		24. Short for 巴勒斯坦, Palestine
		25. Short for 巴基斯坦, Pakistan
		26. Short for 巴拿馬, Panama
		27. Short for 巴哈馬, The Bahamas
		28. Short for 巴拉圭, Paraguay
		29. Variant of 芭
		30. Variant of 笆
		31. Variant of 粑

料 ⇨ 米 + 斗

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
米	mǐ	1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
		2. husked seed
		3. grain-like things
		4. (chiefly Cantonese) Short for 米粉 gloss=rice vermicelli
		星洲.炒米 - Xīngzhōu chǎomǐ - Singapore-style noodles
		雪菜火鴨絲炆米 - syut3 coi3 fo2 aap3 si1 man1 mai5 - braised rice vermicelli with pickled mustard and shredded roast duck, C
		5. (Cantonese, Shanghainese Wu, slang) money
		有米 - jau5 mai5 - rich, C
		背米 - tr=2pe+3mi, to earn money, SH -
		6. (Shanghainese Wu, slang) ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand
	mǐ	7. metre
		米三 (bhi2 san1, MN-T) - 1.3 metres
		我有一米九高。 (Wǒ yǒu yī mǐ jiǔ gāo.) - I'm 1.9 metres tall.
斗	zhǔ	1. dipper
		2. Simplified form of 鬥
		3. Variant of 陡
		4. (Hokkien) time; an instance or occurrence

巴 ⇨ 巳 + 丨

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
巳	sì	1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
		2. snake (蛇) of Chinese zodiac
		3. Variant of 已
丨	gǔn	1. line
丨		2. be through up and down