Chinese Character 薯 Meanings and components.

Form

薯

Meaning

薯 meaning[3] in English

Potato.

Yam.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 薯 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 office (署)

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

In cangjie it is written with TWLA

How to write 薯

To write薯shu3potato you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 署shu3office arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 署 = 薯

薯 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

薯
Pinyin:shu3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Potato . Yam
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
署
Pinyin:shu3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Office . Bureau . To Sign . To Arrange
罒
Pinyin:wang3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Net (Kangxi Radical 122)
者
Pinyin:zhe3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: (After A Verb Or Adjective) One Who (Is) ... . (After A Noun) Person Involved In ... . -Er . -Ist . (Used After A Number Or 後|后[Hou4] Or 前[Qian2] To Refer To Sth Mentioned Previously) . (Used After A Term, To Mark A Pause Before Defining The Term) . (Old) (Used At The End Of A Command) . (Old) This
耂
Pinyin:lao3
土
Pinyin:tu3
Meaning[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
日
Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan

Notes

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

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

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