Chinese Character 螭 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

螭 meaning[3] in English

Dragon With Horns Not Yet Grown (In Myth Or Heraldry).

Variant Of 魑[Chi1].

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 mythical beast (archaic) (离)

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 LIYUB

How to write 螭

To writechi1dragon with … you should write a combination of chong2lower form … , li2mythical beast … arranged in a shape:

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螭 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:chi1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Dragon With Horns Not Yet Grown (In Myth Or Heraldry) . Variant Of 魑[Chi1]

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:li2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Mythical Beast (Archaic)

Pinyin:xiong1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 凶[Xiong1]

Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)

Pinyin:xiong1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Terrible . Fearful

Pinyin:qian3
Meaning[3]: Receptacle

Pinyin:yi4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Regulate . To Govern . To Control . To Mow

Pinyin:rou2
Meaning[3]: Trample

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 螭in English or Chinese