Chinese Character 押 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

押 meaning[3] in English

To Mortgage.

To Pawn.

To Detain In Custody.

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (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], .shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QWL

How to write 押

To writeya1to mortgage you should write a combination of shou5'hand' radical … , jia3first of … arranged in a shape:

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押 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:ya1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Mortgage . To Pawn . To Detain In Custody . To Escort And Protect . (Literary) To Sign

Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

Pinyin:jia3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: First Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . (Used For An Unspecified Person Or Thing) . First (In A List, As A Party To A Contract Etc) . Letter 'A' Or Roman 'I' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Armor Plating . Shell Or Carapace . (Of The Fingers Or Toes) Nail . Bladed Leather Or Metal Armor (Old) . Ranking System Used In The Imperial Examinations (Old) . Civil Administration Unit In The Baojia 保甲[Bao3 Jia3] System (Old) . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 75°

Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say

Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

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