Chinese Character 竿 Meanings and components.
Form
竿
Meaning
- 竿 meaning[3] in English
Pole.
Main Components
By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 竿 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and old variant of … (干)
Its radical[1] is: 竹 (zhu2) which means: Bamboo, Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1], Kangxi Radical 118, .竹
In cangjie it is written with HMJ
How to write 竿
To write竿 you should write a combination of 竹 , 干 arranged in a 吕 shape:
竹 + 干 = 竿
竿 Stroke Order
The order of the strokes to write 竿 should be followed in this specific way.
Components Tree
The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 竿, looks as follow:
竿
Pinyin:gan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Pole