Chinese Character 咫 Meanings and components.

Form

咫

Meaning

咫 meaning[3] in English

8 In. Length Unit Of Zhou Dynasty.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 咫 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are one of the … (尺) , 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 SORC

How to write 咫

To write咫zhi38 in. … you should write a combination of 尺chi3one of … , 只zhi3only arranged in a 吅 shape:

尺 + 只 = 咫

咫 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

咫
Pinyin:zhi3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: 8 In. Length Unit Of Zhou Dynasty
尺
Pinyin:chi3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: One Of The Characters Used To Represent A Musical Note In Gongche Notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[Gong1 Che3 Pu3]
尸
Pinyin:shi1
Meaning[3]: Person Representing The Dead (During Burial Ceremonies) . To Put A Corpse On Display (After Execution) . Variant Of 屍|尸[Shi1] . Corpse
㇏
Pinyin:㇏
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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