Chinese Character 掖 Meanings and components.

Form

掖

Meaning

掖 meaning[3] in English

To Tuck (Into A Pocket).

To Hide.

To Conceal.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 掖 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and variant of 夜[ye4] (夜)

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 QYOK

How to write 掖

To write掖ye1to tuck … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 夜ye4variant of … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 夜 = 掖

掖 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掖
Pinyin:ye1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Tuck (Into A Pocket) . To Hide . To Conceal
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
夜
Pinyin:ye4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 夜[Ye4]
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)
亻
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 9)
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
夂
Pinyin:zhi3
Meaning[3]: 'Walk Slowly' Component In Chinese Characters . See Also 冬字頭|冬字头[Dong1 Zi4 Tou2]
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Notes

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

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

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