Chinese Character 箝 Meanings and components.

Form

箝

Meaning

箝 meaning[3] in English

Pliers.

Pincers.

To Clamp.

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Main Components

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

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 HQTM

How to write 箝

To write箝qian2pliers you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 拑qian2pliers arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 拑 = 箝

箝 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

箝
Pinyin:qian2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Pliers . Pincers . To Clamp
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]
拑
Pinyin:qian2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Pliers . Pincers . To Clamp
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
甘
Pinyin:gan1
Meaning[3]: Surname Gan . Abbr. For Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 Su4 Sheng3]

Notes

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

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

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