Chinese Character 擀 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

擀 meaning[3] in English

To Roll (Dough Etc).

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (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], .shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QJJJ

How to write 擀

To writegan3to roll … you should write a combination of shou5'hand' radical … , gan4tree trunk arranged in a shape:

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擀 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:gan3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Roll (Dough Etc)

Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

Pinyin:gan4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Tree Trunk . Main Part Of Sth . To Manage . To Work . To Do . Capable . Cadre . To Kill (Slang) . To Fuck (Vulgar)

Pinyin:gan4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Dawn (Archaic)

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Pinyin:𠦝5 Shape:*

Pinyin:zhuo2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Surname Zhuo

Pinyin:bo5
Meaning[3]: Surname Bu

Pinyin:zao3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Early . Morning . Good Morning! . Long Ago . Prematurely

Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Pinyin:gan4
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 乾|干[Gan1]

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

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 擀in English or Chinese