Word and Radical Components of 艺术家

The Chinese word 艺术家 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
艺术家		1. Simplified form of 藝術家

艺术家 ⇨ 艺 + 术 + 家

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
艺		1. Simplified form of 藝
术		1. Simplified form of 術
		2. Simplified form of 朮
		3. Variant of 秫
家	jiā, jia	1. Simplified form of 傢
家	gū	2. Only used in 大家#Pronunciation 3 (大家, tr=dàgū)

艺 ⇨ 艹 + 乙

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
艸		1. grass
艸		2. Variant of 草
乙	yǐ	1. The second of the ten heavenly stems (天干)
		2. second; 2; B; II; beta (used for unnamed people or objects, to enumerate headings in a list, for grades, etc.)
		路人甲和路人乙 (lùrén jiǎ hé lùrén yǐ) - passerby A and passerby B
		他法語成績得了乙。 (Tā fǎyǔ chéngjì dé le yǐ.) - He got a B in French.
		乙肝 (yǐgān) - hepatitis B
		3. (chemistry) eth-; ethyl
		乙烷 (yǐwán) - ethane
		4. (literary, formal) one
		（公文）……加乙份。 ((gōngwén)...... Jiā yǐ fèn.) - (In official letters) …added one copy.
	yǐ	5. (ACG, sometimes sarcastic) thank you for the hard work in (doing something)
		自-演乙 (zìyǎn yǐ) - (q-lite, sarcastically) thank you for your hard work in staging this "drama".
	yǐ	6. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note ti (7).
		Synonyms: ?
		7. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
		Synonyms: 一
		8. (Cantonese) Only used in 山雞乙 (a place in Hong Kong)

术 ⇨ 木 + 丶

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
木	mù	1. tree; woody plant
		Synonyms: 樹
		樹木 - tree
		灌木 - shrub
		木芍藥 - tree peony
		2. wood; timber
		木頭tou - log
		3. wooden
		這張桌子是木的。 - This table is made of wood
		4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
		木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
		棺木 - coffin
		就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
		5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
		有木有 - innit, damn right
		6. numb
		麻木 - numb, insensitive
		她手指凍木了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
丶	zhǔ	1. dot
		2. (An ancient punctuation mark.)
		3. Alternative form of 主 (-)

家 ⇨ 宀 + 豕

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
宀	mián	1. a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms
		2. a kind of flower
		3. (Kangxi radical #40 宀* (“roof”))
		4. usage. As a component, often referred to as 寶蓋頭.
豕	shǐ	1. (obsolete) pig; boar