Chinese Character 姉 Meanings and components.

Form

姉

Meaning

姉 meaning[3] in English

Old Variant Of 姊[Zi3].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 姉 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are female (女) , and see 韍|韨[fu2] (巿)

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

In cangjie it is written with VJB

How to write 姉

To write姉zi3old variant … you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 巿fu2see 韍|韨[fu2] arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 巿 = 姉

姉 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

姉
Pinyin:zi3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 姊[Zi3]
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
巿
Pinyin:fu2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: See 韍|韨[Fu2]
巾
Pinyin:jin1
Meaning[3]: Towel . General Purpose Cloth . Women'S Headcovering (Old) . Kangxi Radical 50
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)
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

Notes

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

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

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