Chinese Character 嫻 Meanings and components.

Form

嫻

Meaning

嫻 meaning[3] in English

Elegant.

Refined.

To Be Skilled At.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with VAND

How to write 嫻

To write嫻xian2elegant you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 閑xian2enclosure arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 閑 = 嫻

嫻 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

嫻
Pinyin:xian2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Elegant . Refined . To Be Skilled At
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
閑
Pinyin:xian2 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Enclosure . (Variant Of 閒|闲[Xian2]) Idle . Unoccupied . Leisure
門
Pinyin:men2
Meaning[3]: Surname Men
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu

Notes

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

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

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