Chinese Character 省 Meanings and components.

Form

省

省 meaning^[3] in English

To Save.

To Economize.

To Do Without.

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 省 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are few (少) , and eye (目)

Its radical^[1] is: 目 (mu4) which means: Eye, Item, Section, List, Catalogue, Table Of Contents, Order (Taxonomy), Goal, Name, Title, .目mu4eye

In cangjie it is written with FHBU

To write省sheng3to save you should write a combination of 少shao3few , 目mu4eye arranged in a 吕 shape:

少 + 目 = 省

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

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

Meaning^[3]: To Save . To Economize . To Do Without . To Omit . To Leave Out . Province . (Archaic) Central Government Department

Meaning^[3]: Few . Less . To Lack . To Be Missing . To Stop (Doing Sth) . Seldom

Meaning^[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

Meaning^[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Meaning^[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title