Chinese Character 箴 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

箴 meaning[3] in English

To Warn.

To Admonish.

Variant Of 針|针[Zhen1].

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (zhu2) which means: Bamboo, Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1], Kangxi Radical 118, .zhu2bamboo

In cangjie it is written with HIHR

How to write 箴

To writezhen1to warn you should write a combination of zhu2bamboo , xian2surname Xian arranged in a shape:

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箴 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:zhen1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Warn . To Admonish . Variant Of 針|针[Zhen1]

Pinyin:zhu2
Meaning[3]: Bamboo . Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1] . Kangxi Radical 118

Pinyin:ma5 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 個|个[Ge4]

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

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Pinyin:jue2
Meaning[3]: 'Vertical Stroke With Hook' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 6) . See Also 豎鉤|竖钩[Shu4 Gou1]

Pinyin:xian2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Surname Xian

Pinyin:xu1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: See 屈戌兒|屈戌儿[Qu1 Qu5 Er5]

Pinyin:wu4 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Fifth Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . Fifth In Order . Letter 'E' Or Roman 'V' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Penta

丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Pinyin:ge1
Meaning[3]: Surname Ge

Pinyin:yi4
Meaning[3]: To Shoot

丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

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

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 箴in English or Chinese