Chinese Character 然 Meanings and components.

Form

然

Meaning

然 meaning[3] in English

Correct.

Right.

So.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with BKF

How to write 然

To write然ran2correct you should write a combination of 肰ran2dog meat , 灬biao1'fire' radical … arranged in a 吕 shape:

肰 + 灬 = 然

然 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

然
Pinyin:ran2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Correct . Right . So . Thus . Like This . -Ly
肰
Pinyin:ran2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Dog Meat . Old Variant Of 然[Ran2]
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
犬
Pinyin:quan3
Meaning[3]: Dog . Kangxi Radical 94
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
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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