Chinese Character 掸 Meanings and components.

Form

掸

Meaning

掸 meaning[3] in English

To Brush Away.

To Dust Off.

Brush.

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Main Components

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

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 QCWJ

How to write 掸

To write掸dan3to brush … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 单dan1surname Shan arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 单 = 掸

掸 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

掸
Pinyin:dan3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Brush Away . To Dust Off . Brush . Duster . Cl:把[Ba3]
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
单
Pinyin:dan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Shan
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8
田
Pinyin:tian2
Meaning[3]: Surname Tian
十
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

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

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

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