Chinese Character 葵 Meanings and components.

Form

葵

Meaning

葵 meaning[3] in English

Sunflower.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 葵 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 tenth of the … (癸)

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

In cangjie it is written with TNOK

How to write 葵

To write葵kui2sunflower you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 癸gui3tenth of … arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 癸 = 葵

葵 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

葵
Pinyin:kui2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Sunflower
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
癸
Pinyin:gui3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Tenth Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . Tenth In Order . Letter 'J' Or Roman 'X' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 15° . Deca
癶
Pinyin:bo1
Meaning[3]: Kangxi Radical 105, Known As 登字頭|登字头[Deng1 Zi4 Tou2]
天
Pinyin:tian1 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Day . Sky . Heaven
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother

Notes

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

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

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