Chinese Character 编 Meanings and components.

Form

编

Meaning

编 meaning[3] in English

To Weave.

To Plait.

To Organize.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with VMISB

How to write 编

To write编bian1to weave you should write a combination of 纟si1'silk' radical … , 扁bian3surname Pian arranged in a 吅 shape:

纟 + 扁 = 编

编 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

编
Pinyin:bian1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Weave . To Plait . To Organize . To Group . To Arrange . To Edit . To Compile . To Write . To Compose . To Fabricate
纟
Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: 'Silk' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 120), Occurring In 红, 绿, 累 Etc . Also Pr. [Mi4]
扁
Pinyin:bian3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Pian
戸
Pinyin:hu4
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 戶|户[Hu4]
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
尸
Pinyin:shi1
Meaning[3]: Person Representing The Dead (During Burial Ceremonies) . To Put A Corpse On Display (After Execution) . Variant Of 屍|尸[Shi1] . Corpse
𠕁
Pinyin:cong2 Shape:+
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
卄
Pinyin:nian4 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Twenty, Twentieth

Notes

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

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

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