Chinese Character 掠 Meanings and components.

Form

掠

Meaning

掠 meaning[3] in English

To Take Over By Force.

To Rob.

To Plunder.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 掠 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and abbr. for Beijing (京)

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 QYRF

How to write 掠

To write掠lve4to take … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 京jing1abbr. for … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 京 = 掠

掠 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掠
Pinyin:lve4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Take Over By Force . To Rob . To Plunder . To Brush Over . To Skim . To Sweep
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
京
Pinyin:jing1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For Beijing . Surname Jing . Jing Ethnic Minority
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

Notes

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

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

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