Chinese Character 宰 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

宰 meaning[3] in English

To Slaughter Livestock.

To Govern Or Rule.

To Cheat Customers.

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (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], .mian2'roof' radical …

In cangjie it is written with JYTJ

How to write 宰

To writezai3to slaughter … you should write a combination of mian2'roof' radical … , xin1surname Xin arranged in a shape:

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宰 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:zai3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Slaughter Livestock . To Govern Or Rule . To Cheat Customers . Imperial Official In Dynastic China

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]

Pinyin:xin1
Meaning[3]: Surname Xin

Pinyin:li4
Meaning[3]: Surname Li

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 宰in English or Chinese