Chinese Character 艺 Meanings and components.

Form

艺

Meaning

艺 meaning[3] in English

Skill.

Art.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 艺 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and second of the … (乙)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TN

How to write 艺

To write艺yi4skill you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 乙yi3second of … arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 乙 = 艺

艺 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

艺
Pinyin:yi4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Skill . Art
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
乙
Pinyin:yi3
Meaning[3]: Second Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . Second In Order . Letter 'B' Or Roman 'Ii' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Second Party (In Legal Contract, Usually 乙方[Yi3 Fang1], As Opposed To 甲方[Jia3 Fang1]) . Ethyl . Bent . Winding . Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 5) . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 105°

Notes

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

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

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