Chinese Character 歴 Meanings and components.

Form

歴

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 歴 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (𠩵) , and to stop (止)

Its radical^[1] is: 止 (zhi3) which means: To Stop, To Prohibit, Until, Only, .止zhi3to stop

In cangjie it is written with MDDM

To write歴li4old variant … you should write a combination of 𠩵li4 , 止zhi3to stop arranged in a 吕 shape:

𠩵 + 止 = 歴

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

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

Meaning^[3]: Old Variant Of 歷|历[Li4]

Meaning^[3]: 'Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 27), Occurring In 原, 历, 压 Etc

Meaning^[3]: Surname Lin . Japanese Surname Hayashi

Meaning^[3]: Surname Mu

Meaning^[3]: To Stop . To Prohibit . Until . Only