Chinese Character 歛 Meanings and components.

Form

歛

Meaning

歛 meaning[3] in English

To Desire.

To Give.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 歛 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are all (僉) , 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 OONO

How to write 歛

To write歛han1to desire you should write a combination of 僉qian1all , 欠qian4deficient arranged in a 吅 shape:

僉 + 欠 = 歛

歛 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

歛
Pinyin:han1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Desire . To Give
僉
Pinyin:qian1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: All
亼
Pinyin:ji2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 集[Ji2]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
兄
Pinyin:xiong1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Elder Brother
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc
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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