Chinese Character 督 Meanings and components.

Form

督

Meaning

督 meaning[3] in English

To Supervise And Direct.

Army Title (Archaic).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 督 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are uncle (叔) , 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 YEBU

How to write 督

To write督du1to supervise … you should write a combination of 叔shu1uncle , 目mu4eye arranged in a 吕 shape:

叔 + 目 = 督

督 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

督
Pinyin:du1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Supervise And Direct . Army Title (Archaic)
叔
Pinyin:shu1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Uncle . Father'S Younger Brother . Husband'S Younger Brother . Taiwan Pr. [Shu2]
尗
Pinyin:shu1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 菽[Shu1] . Archaic Variant Of 叔[Shu1]
上
Pinyin:shang4 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: See 上聲|上声[Shang3 Sheng1]
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway
目
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title

Notes

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

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

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