Chinese Character 筲 Meanings and components.

Form

筲

Meaning

筲 meaning[3] in English

Pot-Scrubbing Brush Made Of Bamboo Strips.

Basket (Container) For Chopsticks.

Variant Of 筲[Shao1].

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Main Components

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

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 HFB

How to write 筲

To write筲shao1pot-scrubbing brush … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 肖xiao4surname Xiao arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 肖 = 筲

筲 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

筲
Pinyin:shao1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Pot-Scrubbing Brush Made Of Bamboo Strips . Basket (Container) For Chopsticks . Variant Of 筲[Shao1]
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]
肖
Pinyin:xiao4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Xiao . Taiwan Pr. [Xiao4]
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]

Notes

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

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

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