Chinese Character 荊 Meanings and components.

Form

荊

Meaning

荊 meaning[3] in English

Chaste Tree Or Berry (Vitex Agnus-Castus).

Alternative Name For The Zhou Dynasty State Of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 Guo2].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 荊 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 Xing (刑)

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

In cangjie it is written with TMTN

How to write 荊

To write荊jing1chaste tree … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 刑xing2surname Xing arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 刑 = 荊

荊 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

荊
Pinyin:jing1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Chaste Tree Or Berry (Vitex Agnus-Castus) . Alternative Name For The Zhou Dynasty State Of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 Guo2]
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
刑
Pinyin:xing2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Xing
开
Pinyin:kai1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Open . To Start . To Turn On . To Boil . To Write Out (A Prescription, Check, Invoice Etc) . To Operate (A Vehicle) . Carat (Gold) . Abbr. For Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 Er3 Wen2] . Abbr. For 開本|开本[Kai1 Ben3], Book Format
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
廾
Pinyin:gong3
Meaning[3]: Hands Joined
刂
Pinyin:dao1
Meaning[3]: 'Knife' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 18) . See Also 立刀旁[Li4 Dao1 Pang2] . See Also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[Ce4 Dao1 Pang2]

Notes

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

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

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