Chinese Character 補 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

補 meaning^[3] in English

To Repair.

To Patch.

To Mend.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 補 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are the left-radical form … (衤) , and (classical) barely (甫)

Its radical^[1] is: 衣 (yi1) which means: Clothes, Cl:件[Jian4], Kangxi Radical 145, .衣yi1clothes

In cangjie it is written with LIJB

How to write 補

To write補bu3to repair you should write a combination of 衤yi1the left-radical … , 甫fu3(classical) barely arranged in a 吅 shape:

衤 + 甫 = 補

補 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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