Chinese Character 撮 Meanings and components.

Form

撮

Meaning

撮 meaning[3] in English

To Pick Up (A Powder Etc) With The Fingertips.

To Scoop Up.

To Collect Together.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 撮 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and variant of 最[zui4] (最)

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 QASE

How to write 撮

To write撮cuo1to pick … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 最zui4variant of … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 最 = 撮

撮 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

撮
Pinyin:cuo1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Pick Up (A Powder Etc) With The Fingertips . To Scoop Up . To Collect Together . To Extract . To Gather Up . Classifier: Pinch . Taiwan Pr. [Cuo4]
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
最
Pinyin:zui4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 最[Zui4]
曰
Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say
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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