Chinese Character 洏 Meanings and components.

Form

洏

Meaning

洏 meaning[3] in English

To Flow (As Water Or Tears).

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with EMBL

How to write 洏

To write洏er2to flow … you should write a combination of 氵shui5'water' radical … , 而er2and arranged in a 吅 shape:

氵 + 而 = 洏

洏 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

洏
Pinyin:er2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Flow (As Water Or Tears)
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]
而
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: And . As Well As . And So . But (Not) . Yet (Not) . (Indicates Causal Relation) . (Indicates Change Of State) . (Indicates Contrast)

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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