Chinese Character 芋 Meanings and components.

Form

芋

Meaning

芋 meaning[3] in English

Taro.

Colocasia Antiquorum.

Colocasia Esculenta.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 芋 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 surname Yu (于)

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

In cangjie it is written with TMD

How to write 芋

To write芋yu4taro you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 于yu2surname Yu arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 于 = 芋

芋 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

芋
Pinyin:yu4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Taro . Colocasia Antiquorum . Colocasia Esculenta
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
于
Pinyin:yu2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Surname Yu
二
Pinyin:er4
Meaning[3]: Two . 2 . (Beijing Dialect) Stupid
亅
Pinyin:jue2
Meaning[3]: 'Vertical Stroke With Hook' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 6) . See Also 豎鉤|竖钩[Shu4 Gou1]

Notes

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

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

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