Chinese Character 祈 Meanings and components.

Form

祈

祈 meaning^[3] in English

To Implore.

To Pray.

To Request.

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 祈 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (礻) , and catty (斤)

Its radical^[1] is: 示 (shi4) which means: To Show, To Reveal, .示shi4to show

In cangjie it is written with IFHML

To write祈qi2to implore you should write a combination of 礻shi4 , 斤jin1catty arranged in a 吅 shape:

礻 + 斤 = 祈

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

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

Meaning^[3]: To Implore . To Pray . To Request

Meaning^[3]: Catty . (Prc) Weight Equal To 500 G . (Tw) Weight Equal To 600 G . (Hk, Malaysia, Singapore) Slightly Over 604 G