Chinese Character 明 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

明 meaning[3] in English

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

Surname Ming.

Ming (C. 2000 Bc), Fourth Of The Legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 Di4] Descended From Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 Nong2] Farmer God.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are abbr. for 日本[Ri4 … (日) , and moon (月)

Its radical[1] is: (ri4) which means: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan, .ri4abbr. for …

In cangjie it is written with AB

How to write 明

To writeming2Ming Dynasty … you should write a combination of ri4abbr. for … , yue4moon arranged in a shape:

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明 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:ming2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) . Surname Ming . Ming (C. 2000 Bc), Fourth Of The Legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 Di4] Descended From Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 Nong2] Farmer God

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

Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 明in English or Chinese