Chinese Character 帜 Meanings and components.

Form

帜

Meaning

帜 meaning[3] in English

Flag.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 帜 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are towel (巾) , and only (只)

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 LBRC

How to write 帜

To write帜zhi4flag you should write a combination of 巾jin1towel , 只zhi3only arranged in a 吅 shape:

巾 + 只 = 帜

帜 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

帜
Pinyin:zhi4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Flag
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)
只
Pinyin:zhi3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Only . Merely . Just . But
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8

Notes

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

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

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