Chinese Character 蛊 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

蛊 meaning[3] in English

Arch. Legendary Venomous Insect.

To Poison.

To Bewitch.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are lower form of … (虫) , and dish (皿)

Its radical[1] is: (chong2) which means: Lower Form Of Animal Life, Including Insects, Insect Larvae, Worms And Similar Creatures, Cl:條|条[Tiao2],隻|只[Zhi1], (Fig.) Person With A Particular Undesirable Characteristic, .chong2lower form …

In cangjie it is written with LIBT

How to write 蛊

To writegu3arch. legendary … you should write a combination of chong2lower form … , min3dish arranged in a shape:

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蛊 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:gu3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Arch. Legendary Venomous Insect . To Poison . To Bewitch . To Drive To Insanity . To Harm By Witchcraft . Intestinal Parasite

Pinyin:chong2
Meaning[3]: Lower Form Of Animal Life, Including Insects, Insect Larvae, Worms And Similar Creatures . Cl:條|条[Tiao2],隻|只[Zhi1] . (Fig.) Person With A Particular Undesirable Characteristic

Pinyin:min3
Meaning[3]: Dish . Vessel . Shallow Container . Rad. No. 108

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 蛊in English or Chinese