Chinese Character 胁 Meanings and components.

Form

胁

Meaning

胁 meaning[3] in English

Flank (The Side Of One's Torso).

To Coerce.

To Threaten.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 胁 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are moon (月) , and to do (办)

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 BKSC

How to write 胁

To write胁xie2flank (the … you should write a combination of 月yue4moon , 办ban4to do arranged in a 吅 shape:

月 + 办 = 胁

胁 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

胁
Pinyin:xie2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Flank (The Side Of One'S Torso) . To Coerce . To Threaten
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
办
Pinyin:ban4 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: To Do . To Manage . To Handle . To Go About . To Run . To Set Up . To Deal With
力
Pinyin:li4
Meaning[3]: Surname Li
丷
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]

Notes

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

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

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