Chinese Character 汐 Meanings and components.

Form

汐

Meaning

汐 meaning^[3] in English

Night Tides.

Evening Ebbtide.

Taiwan Pr. [Xi4].

View more meanings of 汐 in English

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 汐 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'water' radical in … (氵) , and dusk (夕)

Its radical^[1] is: 水 (shui3) which means: Surname Shui, .水shui3surname Shui

In cangjie it is written with ENI

How to write 汐

To write汐xi1night tides you should write a combination of 氵shui5'water' radical … , 夕xi1dusk arranged in a 吅 shape:

氵 + 夕 = 汐

汐 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

汐

Pinyin:xi1 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: Night Tides . Evening Ebbtide . Taiwan Pr. [Xi4]

氵

Pinyin:shui5

Meaning^[3]: 'Water' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 85), Occurring In 没, 法, 流 Etc . See Also 三點水|三点水[San1 Dian3 Shui3]

夕

Pinyin:xi1

Meaning^[3]: Dusk . Evening . Taiwan Pr. [Xi4]

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
Wiktionary Page for 汐in English or Chinese