Chinese Character 菩 Meanings and components.

Form

菩

Meaning

菩 meaning[3] in English

Bodhisattva.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 菩 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 pooh (咅)

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

In cangjie it is written with TYTR

How to write 菩

To write菩pu2Bodhisattva you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 咅pou3pooh arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 咅 = 菩

菩 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

菩
Pinyin:pu2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Bodhisattva
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
咅
Pinyin:pou3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Pooh . Pah . Bah . (Today Used As A Phonetic Component In 部[Bu4], 倍[Bei4], 培[Pei2], 剖[Pou1] Etc)
立
Pinyin:li4
Meaning[3]: Surname Li
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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