Chinese Character 拦 Meanings and components.

Form

拦

Meaning

拦 meaning[3] in English

To Block Sb's Path.

To Obstruct.

To Flag Down (A Taxi).

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Main Components

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

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 QTMM

How to write 拦

To write拦lan2to block … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 兰lan2surname Lan arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 兰 = 拦

拦 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

拦
Pinyin:lan2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Block Sb'S Path . To Obstruct . To Flag Down (A Taxi)
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
兰
Pinyin:lan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Lan . Abbr. For Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 Zhou1], Gansu
丷
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]
三
Pinyin:san1 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Surname San
二
Pinyin:er4
Meaning[3]: Two . 2 . (Beijing Dialect) Stupid
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

Notes

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

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

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