Chinese Character 育 Meanings and components.

Form

育

Meaning

育 meaning[3] in English

To Have Children.

To Raise Or Bring Up.

To Educate.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 育 can be seen as a composition of 3 main shapes where their meanings are 'lid' radical in … (亠) , old variant of … (厶) , 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 YIB

How to write 育

To write育yu4to have … you should write a combination of 亠tou2'lid' radical … 厶si1old variant … , 月yue4moon arranged in a 吕 shape:

亠 + 厶 + 月 = 育

育 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

育
Pinyin:yu4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Have Children . To Raise Or Bring Up . To Educate
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)
厶
Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 某[Mou3]
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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