Chinese Character 蝎 Meanings and components.

Form

蝎

Meaning

蝎 meaning[3] in English

Variant Of 蠍|蝎[Xie1].

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Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: 虫 (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, .虫chong2lower form …

In cangjie it is written with LIAPV

How to write 蝎

To write蝎xie1variant of … you should write a combination of 虫chong2lower form … , 曷he2why arranged in a 吅 shape:

虫 + 曷 = 蝎

蝎 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

蝎
Pinyin:xie1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 蠍|蝎[Xie1]
虫
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
曷
Pinyin:he2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Why . How . When . What . Where
曰
Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say
匃
Pinyin:gai4 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 丐[Gai4]
勹
Pinyin:bao1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 包[Bao1]
亾
Pinyin:wang2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 亡[Wang2]
𠃊
Pinyin:yin3 Shape:一
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

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

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

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