Chinese Character 楚 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

楚 meaning[3] in English

Surname Chu.

Abbr. For Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 Bei3 Sheng3] And Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 Nan2 Sheng3] Provinces Together.

Chinese Kingdom During The Spring And Autumn And Warring States Periods (722-221 Bc).

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Mu (木) , and variant of 匹[pi3] (疋)

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

In cangjie it is written with DDNYO

How to write 楚

To writechu3surname Chu you should write a combination of mu4surname Mu , pi3variant of … arranged in a shape:

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楚 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:chu3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Surname Chu . Abbr. For Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 Bei3 Sheng3] And Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 Nan2 Sheng3] Provinces Together . Chinese Kingdom During The Spring And Autumn And Warring States Periods (722-221 Bc)

Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu

Pinyin:pi3
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 匹[Pi3] . Classifier For Cloth: Bolt

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 楚in English or Chinese