Chinese Character 擁 Meanings and components.

Form

擁

Meaning

擁 meaning[3] in English

To Hold.

To Embrace.

To Wrap Around.

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Main Components

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

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 QYVG

How to write 擁

To write擁yong1to hold you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 雍yong1surname Yong arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 雍 = 擁

擁 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

擁
Pinyin:yong1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Hold . To Embrace . To Wrap Around . To Gather Around (Sb) . To Throng . To Swarm . To Support . Taiwan Pr. [Yong3]
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
雍
Pinyin:yong1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Yong
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)

Notes

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

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

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