Chinese Character 覽 Meanings and components.

Form

覽

Meaning

覽 meaning[3] in English

To Look At.

To View.

To Read.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 覽 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are to supervise (監) , and to see (見)

Its radical[1] is: 見 (jian4) which means: To See, To Meet, To Appear (To Be Sth), To Interview, .見jian4to see

In cangjie it is written with SWBUU

How to write 覽

To write覽lan3to look … you should write a combination of 監jian1to supervise , 見jian4to see arranged in a 吕 shape:

監 + 見 = 覽

覽 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

覽
Pinyin:lan3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Look At . To View . To Read
監
Pinyin:jian1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Supervise . To Inspect . Jail . Prison
臣
Pinyin:chen2
Meaning[3]: Surname Chen
亽
Pinyin:ji2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 亼[Ji2]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
*
Pinyin:*
皿
Pinyin:min3
Meaning[3]: Dish . Vessel . Shallow Container . Rad. No. 108
見
Pinyin:jian4
Meaning[3]: To See . To Meet . To Appear (To Be Sth) . To Interview
目
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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