Chinese Character 苦 Meanings and components.

Form

苦

Meaning

苦 meaning[3] in English

Bitter.

Hardship.

Pain.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 苦 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 Gu (古)

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

In cangjie it is written with TJR

How to write 苦

To write苦ku3bitter you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 古gu3surname Gu arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 古 = 苦

苦 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

苦
Pinyin:ku3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Bitter . Hardship . Pain . To Suffer . To Bring Suffering To . Painstakingly
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
古
Pinyin:gu3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Surname Gu
十
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10
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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