Chinese Character 捕 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

捕 meaning^[3] in English

To Catch.

To Seize.

To Capture.

Main Components

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

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 QIJB

How to write 捕

To write捕bu3to catch you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 甫fu3(classical) barely arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 甫 = 捕

捕 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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