Chinese Character 苔 Meanings and components.

Form

苔

Meaning

苔 meaning[3] in English

Coating (Of Tongue).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 苔 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 Taiwan (abbr.) (台)

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

In cangjie it is written with TIR

How to write 苔

To write苔tai2coating (of … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 台tai2Taiwan (abbr.) arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 台 = 苔

苔 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

苔
Pinyin:tai2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Coating (Of Tongue)
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
台
Pinyin:tai2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Taiwan (Abbr.) . Surname Tai
厶
Pinyin:si1
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 某[Mou3]
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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