Chinese Character 薨 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

薨 meaning[3] in English

Death Of A Prince.

Swarming.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 3 main shapes where their meanings are clover (苜) , (*) , and to die (死)

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

In cangjie it is written with TWLP

How to write 薨

To writehong1death of … you should write a combination of mu4clover ** , si3to die arranged in a shape:

+ * + =

薨 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:hong1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Death Of A Prince . Swarming

Pinyin:mu4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Clover

Pinyin:cao3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]

Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title

*
Pinyin:*

Pinyin:si3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Die . Impassable . Uncrossable . Inflexible . Rigid . Extremely . Damned

Pinyin:dai3
Meaning[3]: Bad . Wicked . Evil . Kangxi Radical 78

Pinyin:xi1
Meaning[3]: Dusk . Evening . Taiwan Pr. [Xi4]

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

Pinyin:bi3
Meaning[3]: Dagger . Ladle . Ancient Type Of Spoon

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 薨in English or Chinese