Chinese Character 抚 Meanings and components.

Form

抚

Meaning

抚 meaning[3] in English

To Comfort.

To Console.

To Stroke.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 抚 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and not to have (无)

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 QMKU

How to write 抚

To write抚fu3to comfort you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 无wu2not to … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 无 = 抚

抚 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

抚
Pinyin:fu3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Comfort . To Console . To Stroke . To Caress . An Old Term For Province Or Provincial Governor
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
无
Pinyin:wu2
Meaning[3]: Not To Have . No . None . Not . To Lack . Un- . -Less

Notes

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

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

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