Chinese Character 挹 Meanings and components.

Form

挹

Meaning

挹 meaning[3] in English

To Ladle Out.

To Dip.

To Pour Out.

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Main Components

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

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 QRAU

How to write 挹

To write挹yi4to ladle … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 邑yi4city arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 邑 = 挹

挹 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

挹
Pinyin:yi4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Ladle Out . To Dip . To Pour Out
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
邑
Pinyin:yi4
Meaning[3]: City . Village
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
巴
Pinyin:ba1 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Ba State During Zhou Dynasty (In East Of Modern Sichuan) . Abbr. For East Sichuan Or Chongqing . Surname Ba . Abbr. For Palestine Or Palestinian . Abbr. For Pakistan

Notes

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

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

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