Chinese Character 约 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

约 meaning[3] in English

To Weigh In A Balance Or On A Scale.

Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with VMPI

How to write 约

To writeyue1to weigh … you should write a combination of si1'silk' radical … , shao2spoon arranged in a shape:

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约 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:yue1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Weigh In A Balance Or On A Scale

Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: 'Silk' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 120), Occurring In 红, 绿, 累 Etc . Also Pr. [Mi4]

Pinyin:shao2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Spoon . Ladle . Cl:把[Ba3] . Abbr. For 公勺[Gong1 Shao2], Centiliter (Unit Of Volume)

Pinyin:bao1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 包[Bao1]

Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 约in English or Chinese