Chinese Character 敌 Meanings and components.

Form

敌

敌 meaning^[3] in English

Enemy.

To Be A Match For.

To Rival.

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 敌 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are tongue (舌) , and (攵)

Its radical^[1] is: 攵 (pu1)

In cangjie it is written with HROK

To write敌di2enemy you should write a combination of 舌she2tongue , 攵pu1 arranged in a 吅 shape:

舌 + 攵 = 敌

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

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

Meaning^[3]: Enemy . To Be A Match For . To Rival . To Resist . To Withstand

Meaning^[3]: Tongue

Meaning^[3]: Thousand

Meaning^[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Meaning^[3]: Ten . 10

Meaning^[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls