Chinese Character 掏 Meanings and components.

Form

掏

Meaning

掏 meaning[3] in English

To Fish Out (From Pocket).

To Scoop.

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Main Components

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

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 QPOU

How to write 掏

To write掏tao1to fish … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 匋tao2pottery arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 匋 = 掏

掏 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掏
Pinyin:tao1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Fish Out (From Pocket) . To Scoop
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
匋
Pinyin:tao2 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Pottery
勹
Pinyin:bao1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 包[Bao1]
缶
Pinyin:fou3
Meaning[3]: Pottery

Notes

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

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

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