Chinese Character 啖 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

啖 meaning[3] in English

To Eat.

To Taste.

To Entice (Using Bait).

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RFF

How to write 啖

To writedan4to eat you should write a combination of kou3mouth , yan2flame arranged in a shape:

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啖 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:dan4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Eat . To Taste . To Entice (Using Bait)

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:yan2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Flame . Inflammation . -Itis

Pinyin:huo3
Meaning[3]: Surname Huo

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 啖in English or Chinese