Chinese Character 掄 Meanings and components.

Form

掄

Meaning

掄 meaning[3] in English

To Swing (One's Arms, A Heavy Object).

To Wave (A Sword, One's Fists).

To Fling (Money).

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Main Components

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

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 QOMB

How to write 掄

To write掄lun1to swing … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 侖lun2to arrange arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 侖 = 掄

掄 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掄
Pinyin:lun1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Swing (One'S Arms, A Heavy Object) . To Wave (A Sword, One'S Fists) . To Fling (Money)
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
侖
Pinyin:lun2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Arrange
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
𠕁
Pinyin:cong2 Shape:+
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]
卄
Pinyin:nian4 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Twenty, Twentieth

Notes

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

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

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