Chinese Character 萤 Meanings and components.

Form

萤

Meaning

萤 meaning[3] in English

Firefly.

Glow-Worm.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 萤 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 lower form of … (虫)

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

In cangjie it is written with TBLI

How to write 萤

To write萤ying2firefly you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 虫chong2lower form … arranged in a 冖 shape:

艹 + 虫 = 萤

萤 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

萤
Pinyin:ying2 Shape:冖
Meaning[3]: Firefly . Glow-Worm
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
虫
Pinyin:chong2
Meaning[3]: Lower Form Of Animal Life, Including Insects, Insect Larvae, Worms And Similar Creatures . Cl:條|条[Tiao2],隻|只[Zhi1] . (Fig.) Person With A Particular Undesirable Characteristic

Notes

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

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

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