Chinese Character 妍 Meanings and components.

Form

妍

Meaning

妍 meaning[3] in English

Beautiful.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 妍 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are female (女) , and to open (开)

Its radical[1] is: 女 (nv3) which means: Female, Woman, Daughter, .女nv3female

In cangjie it is written with VMT

How to write 妍

To write妍yan2beautiful you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 开kai1to open arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 开 = 妍

妍 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

妍
Pinyin:yan2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Beautiful
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
开
Pinyin:kai1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Open . To Start . To Turn On . To Boil . To Write Out (A Prescription, Check, Invoice Etc) . To Operate (A Vehicle) . Carat (Gold) . Abbr. For Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 Er3 Wen2] . Abbr. For 開本|开本[Kai1 Ben3], Book Format
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
廾
Pinyin:gong3
Meaning[3]: Hands Joined

Notes

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

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

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