Chinese Character 局 Meanings and components.

Form

局

Meaning

局 meaning[3] in English

Narrow.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 局 can be seen as a composition of 3 main shapes where their meanings are person representing the … (尸) , variant of 乙[zhe2] (乛) , and mouth (口)

Its radical[1] is: 尸 (shi1) which means: Person Representing The Dead (During Burial Ceremonies), To Put A Corpse On Display (After Execution), Variant Of 屍|尸[Shi1], Corpse, .尸shi1person representing …

In cangjie it is written with SSR

How to write 局

To write局ju2narrow you should write a combination of 尸shi1person representing … , 乛ya5variant of … 口kou3mouth arranged in a 吕 shape:

尸 + 乛 + 口 = 局

局 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

局
Pinyin:ju2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Narrow
尸
Pinyin:shi1
Meaning[3]: Person Representing The Dead (During Burial Ceremonies) . To Put A Corpse On Display (After Execution) . Variant Of 屍|尸[Shi1] . Corpse
乛
Pinyin:ya5
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 乙[Zhe2]
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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