Chinese Character 箪 Meanings and components.

Form

箪

Meaning

箪 meaning[3] in English

Round Basket For Cooked Rice.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 箪 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and Japanese variant of … (単)

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 HCWJ

How to write 箪

To write箪dan1round basket … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 単dan1Japanese variant … arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 単 = 箪

箪 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

箪
Pinyin:dan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Round Basket For Cooked Rice
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]
単
Pinyin:dan1 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Japanese Variant Of 單|单
畄
Pinyin:liu2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 留[Liu2]
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young
田
Pinyin:tian2
Meaning[3]: Surname Tian
十
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

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

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

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