Chinese Character 臘 Meanings and components.

Form

臘

Meaning

臘 meaning[3] in English

12th Lunar Month.

Preserved (Meat, Fish Etc).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 臘 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are moon (月) , and old variant of … (巤)

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 BVVV

How to write 臘

To write臘la412th lunar … you should write a combination of 月yue4moon , 巤lie4old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

月 + 巤 = 臘

臘 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

臘
Pinyin:la4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: 12th Lunar Month . Preserved (Meat, Fish Etc)
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
巤
Pinyin:lie4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 鬣[Lie4]
巛
Pinyin:chuan1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 川[Chuan1]
鼠
Pinyin:shu3
Meaning[3]: Rat . Mouse . Cl:隻|只[Zhi1]
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Pinyin:?

Notes

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

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

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