Chinese Character 巽 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

巽 meaning[3] in English

To Obey.

One Of The Eight Trigrams 八卦[Ba1 Gua4], Symbolizing Wood And Wind.

☴.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are self (己) , and common (共)

Its radical[1] is: (ji3) which means: Self, Oneself, Sixth Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1], Sixth In Order, Letter 'F' Or Roman 'Vi' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc, Hexa, .ji3self

In cangjie it is written with RUTC

How to write 巽

To writexun4to obey you should write a combination of ji3self , gong4common arranged in a shape:

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巽 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:xun4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Obey . One Of The Eight Trigrams 八卦[Ba1 Gua4], Symbolizing Wood And Wind . ☴ . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 135° (Southeast)

Pinyin:ji3
Meaning[3]: Self . Oneself . Sixth Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . Sixth In Order . Letter 'F' Or Roman 'Vi' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Hexa

Pinyin:gong4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Common . General . To Share . Together . Total . Altogether . Abbr. For 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 Chan3 Dang3], Communist Party

廿
Pinyin:nian4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Twenty (20), In A Limited Number Of Set Expressions . Also Written Using Banker'S Character 念

Pinyin:gong3
Meaning[3]: Hands Joined

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 巽in English or Chinese