Chinese Character 膏 Meanings and components.

Form

膏

Meaning

膏 meaning[3] in English

Ointment.

Paste.

Cl:帖[Tie3].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 膏 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Gao (高) , 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 YRBB

How to write 膏

To write膏gao1ointment you should write a combination of 高gao1surname Gao , 月yue4moon arranged in a 吕 shape:

高 + 月 = 膏

膏 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

膏
Pinyin:gao1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Ointment . Paste . Cl:帖[Tie3]
高
Pinyin:gao1
Meaning[3]: Surname Gao
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
冋
Pinyin:jiong1 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 坰[Jiong1]
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]
囗
Pinyin:wei2
Meaning[3]: Enclosure
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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