Chinese Character 掷 Meanings and components.

Form

掷

Meaning

掷 meaning[3] in English

To Toss.

To Throw Dice.

Taiwan Pr. [Zhi2].

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Main Components

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

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 QTKL

How to write 掷

To write掷zhi4to toss you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 郑zheng4Zheng state … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 郑 = 掷

掷 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掷
Pinyin:zhi4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Toss . To Throw Dice . Taiwan Pr. [Zhi2]
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
郑
Pinyin:zheng4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Zheng State During The Warring States Period . Surname Zheng . Abbr. For 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 Zhou1]
关
Pinyin:guan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Guan
丷
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]
天
Pinyin:tian1 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Day . Sky . Heaven
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
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
阝
Pinyin:fu4 Shape:一

Notes

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

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

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