Chinese Character 萱 Meanings and components.

Form

萱

Meaning

萱 meaning[3] in English

Orange Day-Lily (Hemerocallis Flava).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 萱 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 surname Xuan (宣)

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

In cangjie it is written with TJMM

How to write 萱

To write萱xuan1orange day-lily … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 宣xuan1surname Xuan arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 宣 = 萱

萱 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

萱
Pinyin:xuan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Orange Day-Lily (Hemerocallis Flava)
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
宣
Pinyin:xuan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Xuan
宀
Pinyin:mian2
Meaning[3]: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc . See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4]
亘
Pinyin:gen4 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Extending All The Way Across . Running All The Way Through
二
Pinyin:er4
Meaning[3]: Two . 2 . (Beijing Dialect) Stupid
日
Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan

Notes

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

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

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