Chinese Character 腐 Meanings and components.

Form

腐

Meaning

腐 meaning[3] in English

Decay.

Rotten.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 腐 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are seat of government (府) , and meat (肉)

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 IOIB

How to write 腐

To write腐fu3decay you should write a combination of 府fu3seat of … , 肉rou4meat arranged in a 吕 shape:

府 + 肉 = 腐

腐 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

腐
Pinyin:fu3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Decay . Rotten
府
Pinyin:fu3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Seat Of Government . Government Repository (Archive) . Official Residence . Mansion . Presidential Palace . (Honorific) Your Home . Prefecture (From Tang To Qing Times)
广
Pinyin:guang3
Meaning[3]: 'House On A Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 53), Occurring In 店, 序, 底 Etc
付
Pinyin:fu4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Fu
亻
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 9)
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
寸
Pinyin:cun4
Meaning[3]: A Unit Of Length . Inch . Thumb
肉
Pinyin:rou4
Meaning[3]: Meat . Flesh . Pulp (Of A Fruit) . (Coll.) (Of A Fruit) Squashy . (Of A Person) Flabby . Irresolute . Kangxi Radical 130
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
仌
Pinyin:bing1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 冰[Bing1]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

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

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

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