Chinese Character 扠 Meanings and components.

Form

扠

Meaning

扠 meaning[3] in English

To Fork.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 扠 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and fork (叉)

Its radical[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QEI

How to write 扠

To write扠cha1to fork you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 叉cha1fork arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 叉 = 扠

扠 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

扠
Pinyin:cha1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Fork
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
叉
Pinyin:cha1 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Fork . Pitchfork . Prong . Pick . Cross . Intersect . 'X'
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Notes

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

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

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