Chinese Character 师 Meanings and components.

Form

师

Meaning

师 meaning[3] in English

Surname Shi.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 师 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'knife' radical in … (刂) , and variant of 匝[za1] (帀)

Its radical[1] is: 巾 (jin1) which means: Towel, General Purpose Cloth, Women's Headcovering (Old), Kangxi Radical 50, .巾jin1towel

In cangjie it is written with LLMB

How to write 师

To write师shi1surname Shi you should write a combination of 刂dao1'knife' radical … , 帀za1variant of … arranged in a 吅 shape:

刂 + 帀 = 师

师 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

师
Pinyin:shi1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Shi
刂
Pinyin:dao1
Meaning[3]: 'Knife' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 18) . See Also 立刀旁[Li4 Dao1 Pang2] . See Also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[Ce4 Dao1 Pang2]
帀
Pinyin:za1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 匝[Za1]
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
巾
Pinyin:jin1
Meaning[3]: Towel . General Purpose Cloth . Women'S Headcovering (Old) . Kangxi Radical 50
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)

Notes

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

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

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