Chinese Character 膽 Meanings and components.

Form

膽

Meaning

膽 meaning[3] in English

Gall Bladder.

Courage.

Guts.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 膽 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are moon (月) , and surname Zhan (詹)

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 BNCR

How to write 膽

To write膽dan3gall bladder you should write a combination of 月yue4moon , 詹zhan1surname Zhan arranged in a 吅 shape:

月 + 詹 = 膽

膽 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

膽
Pinyin:dan3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Gall Bladder . Courage . Guts . Gall . Inner Container (E.G. Bladder Of A Football, Inner Container Of A Thermos)
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
詹
Pinyin:zhan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Zhan
厃
Pinyin:wei3 Shape:吕
⺈
Pinyin:⺈
刀
Pinyin:dao1
Meaning[3]: Surname Dao
厂
Pinyin:chang3
Meaning[3]: 'Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 27), Occurring In 原, 历, 压 Etc
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc
言
Pinyin:yan2
Meaning[3]: Words . Speech . To Say . To Talk

Notes

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

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

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