Chinese Character 禍 Meanings and components.

Form

禍

Meaning

禍 meaning[3] in English

Disaster.

Misfortune.

Calamity.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 禍 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (礻) , and surname Guo (咼)

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

In cangjie it is written with IFBBR

How to write 禍

To write禍huo4disaster you should write a combination of 礻shi4 , 咼guo1surname Guo arranged in a 吅 shape:

礻 + 咼 = 禍

禍 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

禍
Pinyin:huo4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Disaster . Misfortune . Calamity
礻
Pinyin:shi4
咼
Pinyin:guo1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Guo
冎
Pinyin:gua3 Shape:一
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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