Chinese Character 嫂 Meanings and components.

Form

嫂

Meaning

嫂 meaning[3] in English

Older Brother's Wife.

Sister-In-Law.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with VHXE

How to write 嫂

To write嫂sao3older brother's … you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 叟sou3old gentleman arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 叟 = 嫂

嫂 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

嫂
Pinyin:sao3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Older Brother'S Wife . Sister-In-Law
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
叟
Pinyin:sou3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Old Gentleman . Old Man
𦥔
Pinyin:𦥔5 Shape:回
臼
Pinyin:jiu4
Meaning[3]: Mortar
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)
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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