Chinese Character 烹 Meanings and components.

Form

烹

Meaning

烹 meaning[3] in English

Cooking Method.

To Boil Sb Alive (Capital Punishment In Imperial China).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 烹 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are prosperous (亨) , and 'fire' radical in … (灬)

Its radical[1] is: 火 (huo3) which means: Surname Huo, .火huo3surname Huo

In cangjie it is written with YRNF

How to write 烹

To write烹peng1cooking method you should write a combination of 亨heng1prosperous , 灬biao1'fire' radical … arranged in a 吕 shape:

亨 + 灬 = 烹

烹 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

烹
Pinyin:peng1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Cooking Method . To Boil Sb Alive (Capital Punishment In Imperial China)
亨
Pinyin:heng1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Prosperous . Henry (Unit Of Inductance)
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
了
Pinyin:le5 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: (Completed Action Marker) . (Modal Particle Indicating Change Of State, Situation Now) . (Modal Particle Intensifying Preceding Clause)
灬
Pinyin:biao1
Meaning[3]: 'Fire' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 86), Occurring In 熙, 然, 熊 Etc

Notes

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

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

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