Chinese Character 肩 Meanings and components.

Form

肩

Meaning

肩 meaning[3] in English

Shoulder.

To Shoulder (Responsibilities Etc).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 肩 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are variant of 戶|户[hu4] (戸) , and moon (月)

Its radical[1] is: 肉 (rou4) which means: Meat, Flesh, Pulp (Of A Fruit), (Coll.) (Of A Fruit) Squashy, (Of A Person) Flabby, Irresolute, Kangxi Radical 130, .肉rou4meat

In cangjie it is written with ISB

How to write 肩

To write肩jian1shoulder you should write a combination of 戸hu4variant of … , 月yue4moon arranged in a 吕 shape:

戸 + 月 = 肩

肩 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

肩
Pinyin:jian1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Shoulder . To Shoulder (Responsibilities Etc)
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
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]

Notes

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

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

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