Chinese Character 蒐 Meanings and components.

Form

蒐

Meaning

蒐 meaning[3] in English

Madder (Rubia Cordifolia).

To Hunt For.

To Gather.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 蒐 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 ghost (鬼)

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

In cangjie it is written with THUI

How to write 蒐

To write蒐sou1madder (Rubia … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 鬼gui3ghost arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 鬼 = 蒐

蒐 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

蒐
Pinyin:sou1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Madder (Rubia Cordifolia) . To Hunt For . To Gather . To Collect
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
鬼
Pinyin:gui3
Meaning[3]: Ghost . Demon . Terrible . Damnable . Clever . Sly . Crafty . (Suffix For Sb With A Certain Vice Or Addiction Etc) . One Of The 28 Constellations

Notes

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

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

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