Chinese Character 蔡 Meanings and components.

Form

蔡

Meaning

蔡 meaning[3] in English

Surname Cai.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 蔡 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 Zhai (祭)

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

In cangjie it is written with TBOF

How to write 蔡

To write蔡cai4surname Cai you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 祭ji4surname Zhai arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 祭 = 蔡

蔡 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

蔡
Pinyin:cai4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Cai
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
祭
Pinyin:ji4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Zhai
月
Pinyin:yue4
Meaning[3]: Moon . Month . Monthly . Cl:個|个[Ge4],輪|轮[Lun2]
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway
示
Pinyin:shi4
Meaning[3]: To Show . To Reveal
二
Pinyin:er4
Meaning[3]: Two . 2 . (Beijing Dialect) Stupid
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

Notes

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

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

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