Chinese Character 芡 Meanings and components.

Form

芡

Meaning

芡 meaning[3] in English

Gorgon Plant.

Fox Nut (Gorgon Euryale Or Euryale Ferox).

Makhana (Hindi).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 芡 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 deficient (欠)

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

In cangjie it is written with TNO

How to write 芡

To write芡qian4Gorgon plant you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 欠qian4deficient arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 欠 = 芡

芡 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

芡
Pinyin:qian4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Gorgon Plant . Fox Nut (Gorgon Euryale Or Euryale Ferox) . Makhana (Hindi)
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
欠
Pinyin:qian4
Meaning[3]: Deficient . To Owe . To Lack . Yawn

Notes

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

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

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