Chinese Character 英 Meanings and components.

Form

英

Meaning

英 meaning[3] in English

United Kingdom.

British.

England.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 英 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 center (央)

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

In cangjie it is written with TLBK

How to write 英

To write英ying1United Kingdom you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 央yang1center arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 央 = 英

英 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

英
Pinyin:ying1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: United Kingdom . British . England . English . Abbr. For 英國|英国[Ying1 Guo2]
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
央
Pinyin:yang1 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Center . End . To Beg . To Plead
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother

Notes

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

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

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