Chinese Character 要 Meanings and components.
Form
要
Meaning
- 要 meaning[3] in English
To Demand.
To Request.
To Coerce.
Main Components
By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 要 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (覀) , and female (女)
Its radical[1] is: 襾 (ya4) which means: Cover, Radical No 146, .襾
In cangjie it is written with MWV
How to write 要
To write要 you should write a combination of 覀 , 女 arranged in a 吕 shape:
覀 + 女 = 要
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 要, looks as follow: