Chinese Character 呮 Meanings and components.

Form

呮

Meaning

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Main Components

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

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 RRC

How to write 呮

To write呮qi4 you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 只zhi3only arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 只 = 呮

呮 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

呮
Pinyin:qi4 Shape:吅
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
只
Pinyin:zhi3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Only . Merely . Just . But
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8

Notes

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

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

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