Chinese Character 掩 Meanings and components.

Form

掩

Meaning

掩 meaning[3] in English

To Cover Up.

To Close.

To Surprise.

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Main Components

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

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 QKLU

How to write 掩

To write掩yan3to cover … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 奄yan3surname Yan arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 奄 = 掩

掩 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掩
Pinyin:yan3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Cover Up . To Close . To Surprise
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
奄
Pinyin:yan3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Yan
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother
电
Pinyin:dian4 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Lightning . Electricity . Electric (Bound Form) . To Get (Or Give) An Electric Shock . Phone Call Or Telegram Etc . To Send Via Telephone Or Telegram Etc
曰
Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say
乚
Pinyin:yin3
Meaning[3]: Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 毫[Hao2] . Archaic Variant Of 乙[Yi3]

Notes

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

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

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