Chinese Character 螳 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

螳 meaning[3] in English

Praying Mantis.

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 (main) hall (堂)

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 LIFBG

How to write 螳

To writetang2praying mantis you should write a combination of chong2lower form … , tang2(main) hall arranged in a shape:

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螳 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:tang2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Praying Mantis

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:tang2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: (Main) Hall . Large Room For A Specific Purpose . Cl:間|间[Jian1] . Relationship Between Cousins Etc On The Paternal Side Of A Family . Of The Same Clan . Classifier For Classes, Lectures Etc . Classifier For Sets Of Furniture

Pinyin:shang4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Surname Shang

Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

Pinyin:jiong1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 坰[Jiong1]

Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]

Pinyin:wei2
Meaning[3]: Enclosure

Pinyin:tu3
Meaning[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 螳in English or Chinese