Chinese Character 簟 Meanings and components.

Form

簟

Meaning

簟 meaning[3] in English

Fine Woven Grass Mat.

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Main Components

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

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 HMWJ

How to write 簟

To write簟dian4fine woven … you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 覃tan2surname Qin arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 覃 = 簟

簟 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

簟
Pinyin:dian4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Fine Woven Grass Mat
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]
覃
Pinyin:tan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Qin
襾
Pinyin:ya4
Meaning[3]: Cover . Radical No 146
早
Pinyin:zao3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Early . Morning . Good Morning! . Long Ago . Prematurely
日
Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan
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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