Chinese Character 要 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

要 meaning[3] in English

To Demand.

To Request.

To Coerce.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (覀) , and female (女)

Its radical[1] is: (ya4) which means: Cover, Radical No 146, .ya4cover

In cangjie it is written with MWV

How to write 要

To writeyao4to demand you should write a combination of xi1 , nv3female arranged in a shape:

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要 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:yao4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Demand . To Request . To Coerce

Pinyin:xi1

Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

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