Chinese Character 披 Meanings and components.

Form

披

Meaning

披 meaning^[3] in English

To Drape Over One's Shoulders.

To Open.

To Unroll.

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Main Components

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

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 QDHE

How to write 披

To write披pi1to drape … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 皮pi2surname Pi arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 皮 = 披

披 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

披

Pinyin:pi1 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: To Drape Over One'S Shoulders . To Open . To Unroll . To Split Open . To Spread Out

扌

Pinyin:shou5

Meaning^[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

皮

Pinyin:pi2

Meaning^[3]: Surname Pi

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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