Chinese Character 筌 Meanings and components.

Form

筌

Meaning

筌 meaning[3] in English

Bamboo Fish Trap.

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Main Components

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

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 HOMG

How to write 筌

To write筌quan2bamboo fish … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 全quan2surname Quan arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 全 = 筌

筌 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

筌
Pinyin:quan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Bamboo Fish Trap
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]
全
Pinyin:quan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Quan
入
Pinyin:ru4
Meaning[3]: To Enter . To Go Into . To Join . To Become A Member Of . To Confirm Or Agree With . Abbr. For 入聲|入声[Ru4 Sheng1]
王
Pinyin:wang2
Meaning[3]: Surname Wang

Notes

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

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

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