Chinese Character 私 Meanings and components.

Form

私

Meaning

私 meaning[3] in English

Personal.

Private.

Selfish.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 私 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are cereal (禾) , and old variant of … (厶)

Its radical[1] is: 禾 (he2) which means: Cereal, Grain, .禾he2cereal

In cangjie it is written with HDI

How to write 私

To write私si1personal you should write a combination of 禾he2cereal , 厶si1old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

禾 + 厶 = 私

私 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

私
Pinyin:si1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Personal . Private . Selfish
禾
Pinyin:he2
Meaning[3]: Cereal . Grain
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu
厶
Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 某[Mou3]

Notes

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

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

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