Chinese Character 呗 Meanings and components.

Form

呗

Meaning

呗 meaning[3] in English

To Chant.

See 梵唄|梵呗[Fan4 Bai4].

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Main Components

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

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 RBO

How to write 呗

To write呗bei5to chant you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 贝bei4surname Bei arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 贝 = 呗

呗 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

呗
Pinyin:bei5 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Chant . See 梵唄|梵呗[Fan4 Bai4]
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
贝
Pinyin:bei4
Meaning[3]: Surname Bei
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

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

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

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