Chinese Character 葛 Meanings and components.

Form

葛

Meaning

葛 meaning[3] in English

Surname Ge.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 葛 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 why (曷)

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

In cangjie it is written with TAPV

How to write 葛

To write葛ge2surname Ge you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 曷he2why arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 曷 = 葛

葛 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

葛
Pinyin:ge2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Ge
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
曷
Pinyin:he2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Why . How . When . What . Where
曰
Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say
匃
Pinyin:gai4 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 丐[Gai4]
勹
Pinyin:bao1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 包[Bao1]
亾
Pinyin:wang2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 亡[Wang2]
𠃊
Pinyin:yin3 Shape:一
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

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

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

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