Chinese Character 蒱 Meanings and components.

Form

蒱

Meaning

蒱 meaning[3] in English

Gambling-Game.

Sedges.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 蒱 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 to catch (捕)

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

In cangjie it is written with TQIB

How to write 蒱

To write蒱pu2gambling-game you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 捕bu3to catch arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 捕 = 蒱

蒱 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

蒱
Pinyin:pu2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Gambling-Game . Sedges
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
捕
Pinyin:bu3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Catch . To Seize . To Capture
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
甫
Pinyin:fu3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: (Classical) Barely . Just . Just Now

Notes

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

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

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