Chinese Character 扶 Meanings and components.

Form

扶

Meaning

扶 meaning[3] in English

To Support With The Hand.

To Help Sb Up.

To Support Oneself By Holding Onto Something.

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Main Components

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

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 QQO

How to write 扶

To write扶fu2to support … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 夫fu1husband arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 夫 = 扶

扶 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

扶
Pinyin:fu2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Support With The Hand . To Help Sb Up . To Support Oneself By Holding Onto Something . To Help
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
夫
Pinyin:fu1 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Husband . Man . Manual Worker . Conscripted Laborer (Old)
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
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother

Notes

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

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

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