Chinese Character 篆 Meanings and components.

Form

篆

Meaning

篆 meaning[3] in English

Seal (Of Office).

Seal Script (A Calligraphic Style).

The Small Seal 小篆 And Great Seal 大篆.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 篆 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and to foretell the … (彖)

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 HVNO

How to write 篆

To write篆zhuan4seal (of … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 彖tuan4to foretell … arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 彖 = 篆

篆 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

篆
Pinyin:zhuan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Seal (Of Office) . Seal Script (A Calligraphic Style) . The Small Seal 小篆 And Great Seal 大篆 . Writing In Seal Script
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]
彖
Pinyin:tuan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Foretell The Future Using The Trigrams Of The Book Of Changes 易經|易经
彑
Pinyin:ji4
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 彐[Ji4]
𧰨
Pinyin:geng4 Shape:一

Notes

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

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

  • Wiktionary Page for 篆in English or Chinese