Chinese Character 掃 Meanings and components.

Form

掃

Meaning

掃 meaning[3] in English

To Sweep.

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Main Components

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

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 QSMB

How to write 掃

To write掃sao3to sweep you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 帚zhou3broom arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 帚 = 掃

掃 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掃
Pinyin:sao3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Sweep
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
帚
Pinyin:zhou3 Shape:冖
Meaning[3]: Broom
彐
Pinyin:ji4
Meaning[3]: Pig Snout (Kangxi Radical 58)
巾
Pinyin:jin1
Meaning[3]: Towel . General Purpose Cloth . Women'S Headcovering (Old) . Kangxi Radical 50
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]
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)

Notes

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

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

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