Chinese Character 觊 Meanings and components.

Form

觊

Meaning

觊 meaning[3] in English

To Covet.

To Long For.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 觊 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are old variant of … (岂) , and to see (见)

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 UUBHU

How to write 觊

To write觊ji4to covet you should write a combination of 岂qi3old variant … , 见jian4to see arranged in a 吅 shape:

岂 + 见 = 觊

觊 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

觊
Pinyin:ji4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Covet . To Long For
岂
Pinyin:qi3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 愷|恺[Kai3] . Old Variant Of 凱|凯[Kai3]
山
Pinyin:shan1
Meaning[3]: Surname Shan
己
Pinyin:ji3
Meaning[3]: Self . Oneself . Sixth Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . Sixth In Order . Letter 'F' Or Roman 'Vi' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Hexa
见
Pinyin:jian4
Meaning[3]: To See . To Meet . To Appear (To Be Sth) . To Interview
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
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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