Chinese Character 笑 Meanings and components.

Form

笑

Meaning

笑 meaning[3] in English

Old Variant Of 笑[Xiao4].

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Main Components

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

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 HHK

How to write 笑

To write笑xiao4old variant … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 夭yao1tender arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 夭 = 笑

笑 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

笑
Pinyin:xiao4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 笑[Xiao4]
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]
夭
Pinyin:yao1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Tender . Gentle . To Die Prematurely
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother

Notes

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

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

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