Chinese Character 筵 Meanings and components.

Form

筵

Meaning

筵 meaning[3] in English

Bamboo Mat For Sitting.

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Main Components

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

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 HNKV

How to write 筵

To write筵yan2bamboo mat … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 延yan2surname Yan arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 延 = 筵

筵 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

筵
Pinyin:yan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Bamboo Mat For Sitting
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]
延
Pinyin:yan2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Yan
廴
Pinyin:yin3
Meaning[3]: 'Long Stride' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 54), Occurring In 建, 延, 廷 Etc
正
Pinyin:zheng4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: First Month Of The Lunar Year
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
止
Pinyin:zhi3
Meaning[3]: To Stop . To Prohibit . Until . Only

Notes

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

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

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