Chinese Character 次 Meanings and components.

Form

次

Meaning

次 meaning^[3] in English

Next In Sequence.

Second.

The Second (Day, Time Etc).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 次 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'ice' radical in … (冫) , and deficient (欠)

Its radical^[1] is: 欠 (qian4) which means: Deficient, To Owe, To Lack, Yawn, .欠qian4deficient

In cangjie it is written with MMNO

How to write 次

To write次ci4next in … you should write a combination of 冫bing1'ice' radical … , 欠qian4deficient arranged in a 吅 shape:

冫 + 欠 = 次

次 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

次

Pinyin:ci4 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: Next In Sequence . Second . The Second (Day, Time Etc) . Secondary . Vice- . Sub- . Infra- . Inferior Quality . Substandard . Order . Sequence . Hypo- (Chemistry) . Classifier For Enumerated Events: Time

冫

Pinyin:bing1

Meaning^[3]: 'Ice' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 15), Occurring In 冰[Bing1], 次[Ci4] Etc, Known As 兩點水|两点水[Liang3 Dian3 Shui3]

欠

Pinyin:qian4

Meaning^[3]: Deficient . To Owe . To Lack . Yawn

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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