Chinese Character 获 Meanings and components.

Form

获

Meaning

获 meaning[3] in English

To Catch.

To Obtain.

To Capture.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 获 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 (犾)

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

In cangjie it is written with TKHK

How to write 获

To write获huo4to catch you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 犾yin2 arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 犾 = 获

获 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

获
Pinyin:huo4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Catch . To Obtain . To Capture
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
犾
Pinyin:yin2 Shape:吅
犭
Pinyin:quan3
Meaning[3]: Three-Stroke Form Of Kangxi Radical 94 犬[Quan3]
犬
Pinyin:quan3
Meaning[3]: Dog . Kangxi Radical 94
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
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Notes

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

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

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