Chinese Character 篭 Meanings and components.

Form

篭

Meaning

篭 meaning[3] in English

Old Variant Of 籠|笼[Long2].

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Main Components

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

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 HYTU

How to write 篭

To write篭long2old variant … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 竜long2Japanese variant … arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 竜 = 篭

篭 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

篭
Pinyin:long2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 籠|笼[Long2]
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]
竜
Pinyin:long2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Japanese Variant Of 龍|龙
立
Pinyin:li4
Meaning[3]: Surname Li
电
Pinyin:dian4 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Lightning . Electricity . Electric (Bound Form) . To Get (Or Give) An Electric Shock . Phone Call Or Telegram Etc . To Send Via Telephone Or Telegram Etc
曰
Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say
乚
Pinyin:yin3
Meaning[3]: Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 毫[Hao2] . Archaic Variant Of 乙[Yi3]

Notes

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

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

  • Wiktionary Page for 篭in English or Chinese