Chinese Character 名 Meanings and components.

Form

名

Meaning

名 meaning[3] in English

Name.

Noun (Part Of Speech).

Place (E.G. Among Winners).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 名 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are dusk (夕) , and mouth (口)

Its radical[1] is: 口 (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .口kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with NIR

How to write 名

To write名ming2name you should write a combination of 夕xi1dusk , 口kou3mouth arranged in a 吕 shape:

夕 + 口 = 名

名 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

名
Pinyin:ming2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Name . Noun (Part Of Speech) . Place (E.G. Among Winners) . Famous . Classifier For People
夕
Pinyin:xi1
Meaning[3]: Dusk . Evening . Taiwan Pr. [Xi4]
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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