Chinese Character 胡 Meanings and components.

Form

胡

Meaning

胡 meaning[3] in English

Surname Hu.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 胡 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Gu (古) , 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 JRB

How to write 胡

To write胡hu2surname Hu you should write a combination of 古gu3surname Gu , 月yue4moon arranged in a 吅 shape:

古 + 月 = 胡

胡 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

胡
Pinyin:hu2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Hu
古
Pinyin:gu3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Surname Gu
十
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
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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