Chinese Character 咚 Meanings and components.

Form

咚

Meaning

咚 meaning[3] in English

(Onom.) Boom (Of A Drum).

Knock (On The Door).

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Main Components

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

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 RHEY

How to write 咚

To write咚dong1(onom.) boom … you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 冬dong1winter arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 冬 = 咚

咚 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

咚
Pinyin:dong1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: (Onom.) Boom (Of A Drum) . Knock (On The Door)
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
冬
Pinyin:dong1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Winter
夂
Pinyin:zhi3
Meaning[3]: 'Walk Slowly' Component In Chinese Characters . See Also 冬字頭|冬字头[Dong1 Zi4 Tou2]
冫
Pinyin:bing1
Meaning[3]: 'Ice' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 15), Occurring In 冰[Bing1], 次[Ci4] Etc, Known As 兩點水|两点水[Liang3 Dian3 Shui3]

Notes

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

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

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