Chinese Character 光 Meanings and components.

Form

光

Meaning

光 meaning[3] in English

Light.

Ray.

Cl:道[Dao4].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 光 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (⺌) , and surname Wu (兀)

Its radical[1] is: 儿 (er2) which means: Variant Of 人[Ren2], 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc, .儿er2variant of …

In cangjie it is written with FMU

How to write 光

To write光guang1light you should write a combination of ⺌⺌ , 兀wu4surname Wu arranged in a 吕 shape:

⺌ + 兀 = 光

光 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

光
Pinyin:guang1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Light . Ray . Cl:道[Dao4] . Bright . Only . Merely . To Use Up
⺌
Pinyin:⺌
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young
兀
Pinyin:wu4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Wu
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

Notes

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

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

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