Chinese Character 苇 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

苇 meaning^[3] in English

Reed.

Rush.

Phragmites Communis.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 苇 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 Wei (韦)

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

In cangjie it is written with TQS

How to write 苇

To write苇wei3reed you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 韦wei2surname Wei arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 韦 = 苇

苇 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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