Chinese Character 莽 Meanings and components.

Form

莽

Meaning

莽 meaning[3] in English

Thick Weeds.

Luxuriant Growth.

Illicium Anisatum, A Shrub With Poisonous Leaves.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 莽 can be seen as a composition of 3 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , big (大) , and hands joined (廾)

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

In cangjie it is written with TIKT

How to write 莽

To write莽mang3thick weeds you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 大da4big 廾gong3hands joined arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 大 + 廾 = 莽

莽 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

莽
Pinyin:mang3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Thick Weeds . Luxuriant Growth . Illicium Anisatum, A Shrub With Poisonous Leaves . Impertinent
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
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
廾
Pinyin:gong3
Meaning[3]: Hands Joined

Notes

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

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

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