Chinese Character 咪 Meanings and components.

Form

咪

Meaning

咪 meaning[3] in English

Sound For Calling A Cat.

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Main Components

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

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 RFD

How to write 咪

To write咪mi1sound for … you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 米mi3surname Mi arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 米 = 咪

咪 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

咪
Pinyin:mi1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Sound For Calling A Cat
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
米
Pinyin:mi3
Meaning[3]: Surname Mi
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu
丷
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]

Notes

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

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

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