Chinese Character 扣 Meanings and components.

Form

扣

Meaning

扣 meaning[3] in English

To Fasten.

To Button.

Button.

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Main Components

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

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 QR

How to write 扣

To write扣kou4to fasten you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 口kou3mouth arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 口 = 扣

扣 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

扣
Pinyin:kou4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Fasten . To Button . Button . Buckle . Knot . To Arrest . To Confiscate . To Deduct (Money) . Discount . To Knock . To Smash, Spike Or Dunk (A Ball) . To Cover (With A Bowl Etc) . (Fig.) To Tag A Label On Sb . (Tw) (Loanword) Code
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
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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