Chinese Character 仕 Meanings and components.

Form

仕

Meaning

仕 meaning[3] in English

To Serve As An Official.

An Official.

The Two Chess Pieces In Chinese Chess Guarding The 'General' Or 'King' 將|将[Jiang4].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 仕 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'person' radical in … (亻) , and surname Shi (士)

Its radical[1] is: 人 (ren2) which means: Man, Person, People, Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4], .人ren2man

In cangjie it is written with OG

How to write 仕

To write仕shi4to serve … you should write a combination of 亻ren2'person' radical … , 士shi4surname Shi arranged in a 吅 shape:

亻 + 士 = 仕

仕 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 仕 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 仕, looks as follow:

仕
Pinyin:shi4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Serve As An Official . An Official . The Two Chess Pieces In Chinese Chess Guarding The 'General' Or 'King' 將|将[Jiang4]
亻
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 9)
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
士
Pinyin:shi4
Meaning[3]: Surname Shi

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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