Chinese Character 膳 Meanings and components.

Form

膳

Meaning

膳 meaning[3] in English

Meals.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 膳 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are moon (月) , and good (virtuous) (善)

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 BTTR

How to write 膳

To write膳shan4meals you should write a combination of 月yue4moon , 善shan4good (virtuous) arranged in a 吅 shape:

月 + 善 = 膳

膳 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

膳
Pinyin:shan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Meals
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
善
Pinyin:shan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Good (Virtuous) . Benevolent . Well-Disposed . Good At Sth . To Improve Or Perfect
羊
Pinyin:yang2
Meaning[3]: Surname Yang
业
Pinyin:ye4 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Surname Ye
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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