Chinese Character 损 Meanings and components.

Form

损

Meaning

损 meaning[3] in English

To Decrease.

To Lose.

To Damage.

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Main Components

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

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 QRBO

How to write 损

To write损sun3to decrease you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 员yuan2person arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 员 = 损

损 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

损
Pinyin:sun3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Decrease . To Lose . To Damage . To Harm . (Coll.) To Speak Sarcastically . To Deride . Caustic . Mean . One Of The 64 Hexagrams Of The Book Of Changes (䷨)
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
员
Pinyin:yuan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Person . Employee . Member
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
贝
Pinyin:bei4
Meaning[3]: Surname Bei
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

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

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

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