Chinese Character 掫 Meanings and components.

Form

掫

Meaning

掫 meaning[3] in English

Beat The Night Watches.

Grasp.

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Main Components

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

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 QSJE

How to write 掫

To write掫zhou1beat the … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 取qu3to take arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 取 = 掫

掫 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掫
Pinyin:zhou1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Beat The Night Watches . Grasp
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
取
Pinyin:qu3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Take . To Get . To Choose . To Fetch
耳
Pinyin:er3
Meaning[3]: Ear . Handle (Archaeology) . And That Is All (Classical Chinese)
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

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

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

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