Chinese Character 官 Meanings and components.

Form

官

Meaning

官 meaning[3] in English

Surname Guan.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 官 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'roof' radical in … (宀) , and old variant of … (㠯)

Its radical[1] is: 宀 (mian2) which means: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc, See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4], .宀mian2'roof' radical …

In cangjie it is written with JRLR

How to write 官

To write官guan1surname Guan you should write a combination of 宀mian2'roof' radical … , 㠯yi3old variant … arranged in a 吕 shape:

宀 + 㠯 = 官

官 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

官
Pinyin:guan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Guan
宀
Pinyin:mian2
Meaning[3]: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc . See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4]
㠯
Pinyin:yi3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 以[Yi3]

Notes

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

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

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