Chinese Character 拾 Meanings and components.

Form

拾

Meaning

拾 meaning[3] in English

To Ascend In Light Steps.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 拾 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and 100 ml (合)

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 QOMR

How to write 拾

To write拾shi2to ascend … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 合he2100 ml arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 合 = 拾

拾 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 拾 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 拾, looks as follow:

拾
Pinyin:shi2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Ascend In Light Steps
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
合
Pinyin:he2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: 100 Ml . One-Tenth Of A Peck . Measure For Dry Grain Equal To One-Tenth Of Sheng 升 Or Liter, Or One-Hundredth Dou 斗
亼
Pinyin:ji2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 集[Ji2]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
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
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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