Chinese Character 售 Meanings and components.

Form

售

Meaning

售 meaning[3] in English

To Sell.

To Make Or Carry Out (A Plan Or Intrigue Etc).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 售 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are short-tailed bird (隹) , and mouth (口)

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 OGR

How to write 售

To write售shou4to sell you should write a combination of 隹zhui1short-tailed bird , 口kou3mouth arranged in a 吕 shape:

隹 + 口 = 售

售 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

售
Pinyin:shou4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Sell . To Make Or Carry Out (A Plan Or Intrigue Etc)
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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