Chinese Character 撚 Meanings and components.

Form

撚

Meaning

撚 meaning[3] in English

To Play Tricks On Or Toy With.

Delicate.

Exquisite (Cantonese).

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Main Components

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

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 QBKF

How to write 撚

To write撚nian3to play … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 然ran2correct arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 然 = 撚

撚 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

撚
Pinyin:nian3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Play Tricks On Or Toy With . Delicate . Exquisite (Cantonese)
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
然
Pinyin:ran2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Correct . Right . So . Thus . Like This . -Ly
肰
Pinyin:ran2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Dog Meat . Old Variant Of 然[Ran2]
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
犬
Pinyin:quan3
Meaning[3]: Dog . Kangxi Radical 94
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
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
灬
Pinyin:biao1
Meaning[3]: 'Fire' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 86), Occurring In 熙, 然, 熊 Etc

Notes

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

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

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