Chinese Character 既 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

既 meaning^[3] in English

Already.

Since.

Both... (And...).

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 既 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are blunt (艮) , and choke on something … (旡)

Its radical^[1] is: 无 (wu2) which means: Not To Have, No, None, Not, To Lack, Un-, -Less, .无wu2not to …

In cangjie it is written with AIMVU

How to write 既

To write既ji4already you should write a combination of 艮gen3blunt , 旡ji4choke on … arranged in a 吅 shape:

艮 + 旡 = 既

既 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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