Chinese Character 籌 Meanings and components.
Form
籌
Meaning
- 籌 meaning[3] in English
Chip (In Gambling).
Token (For Counting).
Ticket.
Main Components
By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 籌 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and surname Shou (壽)
Its radical[1] is: 竹 (zhu2) which means: Bamboo, Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1], Kangxi Radical 118, .竹
In cangjie it is written with HGNI
How to write 籌
To write籌 you should write a combination of 竹 , 壽 arranged in a 吕 shape:
竹 + 壽 = 籌
籌 Stroke Order
The order of the strokes to write 籌 should be followed in this specific way.
Components Tree
The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 籌, looks as follow:
籌
Pinyin:chou2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Chip (In Gambling) . Token (For Counting) . Ticket . To Prepare . To Plan . To Raise (Funds) . Resource . Means
壽
Pinyin:shou4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Shou
乙
Pinyin:yi3
Meaning[3]: Second Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . Second In Order . Letter 'B' Or Roman 'Ii' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Second Party (In Legal Contract, Usually 乙方[Yi3 Fang1], As Opposed To 甲方[Jia3 Fang1]) . Ethyl . Bent . Winding . Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 5) . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 105°