Chinese Character 灌 Meanings and components.

Form

灌

Meaning

灌 meaning[3] in English

To Irrigate.

To Pour.

To Install (Software).

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with ETRG

How to write 灌

To write灌guan4to irrigate you should write a combination of 氵shui5'water' radical … , 雚guan4(archaic) stork arranged in a 吅 shape:

氵 + 雚 = 灌

灌 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

灌
Pinyin:guan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Irrigate . To Pour . To Install (Software) . To Record (Music)
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]
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

Notes

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

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

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