Chinese Character 読 Meanings and components.

Form

読

Meaning

読 meaning[3] in English

Japanese Variant Of 讀|读.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 読 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are words (言) , and Japanese variant of … (売)

Its radical[1] is: 言 (yan2) which means: Words, Speech, To Say, To Talk, .言yan2words

In cangjie it is written with YRGBU

How to write 読

To write読du2Japanese variant … you should write a combination of 言yan2words , 売mai4Japanese variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

言 + 売 = 読

読 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

読
Pinyin:du2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Japanese Variant Of 讀|读
言
Pinyin:yan2
Meaning[3]: Words . Speech . To Say . To Talk
売
Pinyin:mai4 Shape:冖
Meaning[3]: Japanese Variant Of 賣|卖[Mai4]
士
Pinyin:shi4
Meaning[3]: Surname Shi
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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