Chinese Character 箏 Meanings and components.
Form
箏
Meaning
- 箏 meaning[3] in English
Guzheng Or Long Zither.
Long Zither With 13 To 16 Strings, Developed From Guqin 古琴 During Tang And Song Times.
Japanese Koto.
Main Components
By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 箏 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and to strive for (爭)
Its radical[1] is: 竹 (zhu2) which means: Bamboo, Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1], Kangxi Radical 118, .竹
In cangjie it is written with HBSD
How to write 箏
To write箏 you should write a combination of 竹 , 爭 arranged in a 吕 shape:
竹 + 爭 = 箏
箏 Stroke Order
The order of the strokes to write 箏 should be followed in this specific way.
Components Tree
The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 箏, looks as follow:
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