Chinese Character 觀 Meanings and components.

Form

觀

Meaning

觀 meaning[3] in English

Surname Guan.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 觀 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (archaic) stork (雚) , 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 TGBUU

How to write 觀

To write觀guan1surname Guan you should write a combination of 雚guan4(archaic) stork , 見jian4to see arranged in a 吅 shape:

雚 + 見 = 觀

觀 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

觀
Pinyin:guan1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Guan
雚
Pinyin:guan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: (Archaic) Stork . Heron
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
𨾴
Pinyin:gui1 Shape:咒
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird
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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