Chinese Character 荐 Meanings and components.

Form

荐

Meaning

荐 meaning[3] in English

To Recommend.

To Offer Sacrifice (Arch.).

Grass.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 荐 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 to exist (存)

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

In cangjie it is written with TKLD

How to write 荐

To write荐jian4to recommend you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 存cun2to exist arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 存 = 荐

荐 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

荐
Pinyin:jian4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Recommend . To Offer Sacrifice (Arch.) . Grass . Straw Mat
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
存
Pinyin:cun2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Exist . To Deposit . To Store . To Keep . To Survive
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
亻
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 9)
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
子
Pinyin:zi5
Meaning[3]: Son . Child . Seed . Egg . Small Thing . 1st Earthly Branch: 11 P.M.-1 A.M., Midnight, 11th Solar Month (7th December To 5th January), Year Of The Rat . Viscount, Fourth Of Five Orders Of Nobility 五等爵位[Wu3 Deng3 Jue2 Wei4] . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 0° (North)

Notes

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

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

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