Chinese Character 嫦 Meanings and components.

Form

嫦

Meaning

嫦 meaning[3] in English

A Legendary Beauty Who Flew To The Moon.

The Lady In The Moon.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with VFBB

How to write 嫦

To write嫦chang2a legendary … you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 常chang2surname Chang arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 常 = 嫦

嫦 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

嫦
Pinyin:chang2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: A Legendary Beauty Who Flew To The Moon . The Lady In The Moon
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
常
Pinyin:chang2 Shape:冖
Meaning[3]: Surname Chang
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young
吊
Pinyin:diao4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Suspend . To Hang Up . To Hang A Person
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
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)

Notes

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

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

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