Chinese Character 职 Meanings and components.

Form

职

Meaning

职 meaning[3] in English

Office.

Duty.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 职 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are ear (耳) , and only (只)

Its radical[1] is: 耳 (er3) which means: Ear, Handle (Archaeology), And That Is All (Classical Chinese), .耳er3ear

In cangjie it is written with SJRC

How to write 职

To write职zhi2office you should write a combination of 耳er3ear , 只zhi3only arranged in a 吅 shape:

耳 + 只 = 职

职 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

职
Pinyin:zhi2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Office . Duty
耳
Pinyin:er3
Meaning[3]: Ear . Handle (Archaeology) . And That Is All (Classical Chinese)
只
Pinyin:zhi3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Only . Merely . Just . But
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8

Notes

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

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

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