Chinese Character 啜 Meanings and components.

Form

啜

Meaning

啜 meaning[3] in English

(Literary) To Drink.

To Sip.

To Sob.

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Main Components

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

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 REEE

How to write 啜

To write啜chuai4(literary) to … you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 叕zhuo2to join … arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 叕 = 啜

啜 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

啜
Pinyin:chuai4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: (Literary) To Drink . To Sip . To Sob
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
叕
Pinyin:zhuo2 Shape:叕
Meaning[3]: To Join Together . To Lack . Narrow And Shallow
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

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

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

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