Chinese Character 笃 Meanings and components.

Form

笃

Meaning

笃 meaning[3] in English

Serious (Illness).

Sincere.

True.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 笃 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and surname Ma (马)

Its radical[1] is: 竹 (zhu2) which means: Bamboo, Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1], Kangxi Radical 118, .竹zhu2bamboo

In cangjie it is written with HNVM

How to write 笃

To write笃du3serious (illness) you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 马ma3surname Ma arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 马 = 笃

笃 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

笃
Pinyin:du3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Serious (Illness) . Sincere . True
竹
Pinyin:zhu2
Meaning[3]: Bamboo . Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1] . Kangxi Radical 118
亇
Pinyin:ma5 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 個|个[Ge4]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
*
Pinyin:*
亅
Pinyin:jue2
Meaning[3]: 'Vertical Stroke With Hook' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 6) . See Also 豎鉤|竖钩[Shu4 Gou1]
马
Pinyin:ma3
Meaning[3]: Surname Ma . Abbr. For Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 Lai2 Xi1 Ya4]

Notes

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

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

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