Chinese Character 莧 Meanings and components.

Form

莧

Meaning

莧 meaning[3] in English

Amaranth (Genus Amaranthus).

Joseph's Coat (Amaranthus Tricolor).

Chinese Spinach (Amaranth Mangostanus).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 莧 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 see (見)

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

In cangjie it is written with TBUU

How to write 莧

To write莧xian4amaranth (genus … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 見jian4to see arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 見 = 莧

莧 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

莧
Pinyin:xian4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Amaranth (Genus Amaranthus) . Joseph'S Coat (Amaranthus Tricolor) . Chinese Spinach (Amaranth Mangostanus)
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
見
Pinyin:jian4
Meaning[3]: To See . To Meet . To Appear (To Be Sth) . To Interview
目
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

Notes

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

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

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