Chinese Character 拜 Meanings and components.

Form

拜

Meaning

拜 meaning[3] in English

To Pay Respect.

Worship.

Visit.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 拜 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are hand (手) , and old variant of … (干)

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 HQMQJ

How to write 拜

To write拜bai4to pay … you should write a combination of 手shou3hand , 干gan4old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

手 + 干 = 拜

拜 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

拜
Pinyin:bai4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Pay Respect . Worship . Visit . Salute
手
Pinyin:shou3
Meaning[3]: 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]
干
Pinyin:gan4
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 乾|干[Gan1]
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
十
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

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

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

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