Chinese Character 歡 Meanings and components.

Form

歡

Meaning

歡 meaning[3] in English

Joyous.

Happy.

Pleased.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 歡 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (archaic) stork (雚) , 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 TGNO

How to write 歡

To write歡huan1joyous you should write a combination of 雚guan4(archaic) stork , 欠qian4deficient arranged in a 吅 shape:

雚 + 欠 = 歡

歡 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

歡
Pinyin:huan1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Joyous . Happy . Pleased
雚
Pinyin:guan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: (Archaic) Stork . Heron
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
𨾴
Pinyin:gui1 Shape:咒
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird
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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