Chinese Character 菱 Meanings and components.

Form

菱

Meaning

菱 meaning[3] in English

Trapa Natans.

Water Caltrop.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 菱 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 dawdle (夌)

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

In cangjie it is written with TGCE

How to write 菱

To write菱ling2Trapa natans you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 夌ling2to dawdle arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 夌 = 菱

菱 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

菱
Pinyin:ling2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Trapa Natans . Water Caltrop
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
夌
Pinyin:ling2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Dawdle . The Name Of The Father Of The Emperor Yao
圥
Pinyin:lu4 Shape:吕
土
Pinyin:tu3
Meaning[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc
夂
Pinyin:zhi3
Meaning[3]: 'Walk Slowly' Component In Chinese Characters . See Also 冬字頭|冬字头[Dong1 Zi4 Tou2]

Notes

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

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

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