Chinese Character 纤 Meanings and components.

Form

纤

Meaning

纤 meaning[3] in English

Boatman's Tow-Rope.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 纤 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'silk' radical in … (纟) , and thousand (千)

Its radical[1] is: 糸 (mi4) which means: Fine Silk, Kangxi Radical 120, .糸mi4fine silk

In cangjie it is written with VMHJ

How to write 纤

To write纤xian1boatman's tow-rope you should write a combination of 纟si1'silk' radical … , 千qian1thousand arranged in a 吅 shape:

纟 + 千 = 纤

纤 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

纤
Pinyin:xian1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Boatman'S Tow-Rope
纟
Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: 'Silk' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 120), Occurring In 红, 绿, 累 Etc . Also Pr. [Mi4]
千
Pinyin:qian1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Thousand
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
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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