Chinese Character 牌 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

牌 meaning^[3] in English

Mahjong Tile.

Playing Card.

Game Pieces.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 牌 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are disk (片) , and low (卑)

Its radical^[1] is: 片 (pian4) which means: Disk, Sheet, .片pian4disk

In cangjie it is written with LNHWJ

How to write 牌

To write牌pai2mahjong tile you should write a combination of 片pian4disk , 卑bei1low arranged in a 吅 shape:

片 + 卑 = 牌

牌 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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