Chinese Character 芽 Meanings and components.

Form

芽

Meaning

芽 meaning[3] in English

Bud.

Sprout.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 芽 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 tooth (牙)

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

In cangjie it is written with TMVH

How to write 芽

To write芽ya2bud you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 牙ya2tooth arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 牙 = 芽

芽 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

芽
Pinyin:ya2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Bud . Sprout
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
牙
Pinyin:ya2
Meaning[3]: Tooth . Ivory . Cl:顆|颗[Ke1]

Notes

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

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

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