Chinese Character 杯 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

杯 meaning^[3] in English

Cup.

Trophy Cup.

Classifier For Certain Containers Of Liquids: Glass, Cup.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 杯 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Mu (木) , and (negative prefix) (不)

Its radical^[1] is: 木 (mu4) which means: Surname Mu, .木mu4surname Mu

In cangjie it is written with DMF

How to write 杯

To write杯bei1cup you should write a combination of 木mu4surname Mu , 不bu4(negative prefix) arranged in a 吅 shape:

木 + 不 = 杯

杯 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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