Chinese Character 妒 Meanings and components.

Form

妒

Meaning

妒 meaning[3] in English

To Envy (Success, Talent).

Jealous.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with VIS

How to write 妒

To write妒du4to envy … you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 戶hu4a household arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 戶 = 妒

妒 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

妒
Pinyin:du4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Envy (Success, Talent) . Jealous
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
戶
Pinyin:hu4
Meaning[3]: A Household . Door . Family
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
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

Notes

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

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

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