Chinese Character 寢 Meanings and components.

Form

寢

Meaning

寢 meaning[3] in English

To Lie Down.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 寢 can be seen as a composition of 5 main shapes where their meanings are 'roof' radical in … (宀) , 'piece of wood' … (爿) , (?) , 'cover' radical in … (冖) , and (once) again (又)

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 JVME

How to write 寢

To write寢qin3to lie … you should write a combination of 宀mian2'roof' radical … , 爿pan2'piece of … ?? 冖mi4'cover' radical … 又you4(once) again arranged in a 吕 shape:

宀 + 爿 + ? + 冖 + 又 = 寢

寢 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

寢
Pinyin:qin3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Lie Down
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]
爿
Pinyin:pan2
Meaning[3]: 'Piece Of Wood' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 90), Mirror Image Of 片[Pian4]
?
Pinyin:?
冖
Pinyin:mi4
Meaning[3]: 'Cover' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 14), Occurring In 軍|军[Jun1], 冠[Guan1] Etc, Known As 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[Tu1 Bao3 Gai4] Or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[Ping2 Bao3 Gai4]
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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