Chinese Character 警 Meanings and components.

Form

警

Meaning

警 meaning[3] in English

To Alert.

To Warn.

Police.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 警 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are to respect (敬) , and words (言)

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

In cangjie it is written with TKYMR

How to write 警

To write警jing3to alert you should write a combination of 敬jing4to respect , 言yan2words arranged in a 吕 shape:

敬 + 言 = 警

警 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

警
Pinyin:jing3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Alert . To Warn . Police
敬
Pinyin:jing4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Respect . To Venerate . To Salute . To Offer
苟
Pinyin:gou3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Gou
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
句
Pinyin:ju4 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 勾[Gou1]
勹
Pinyin:bao1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 包[Bao1]
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
攵
Pinyin:pu1
言
Pinyin:yan2
Meaning[3]: Words . Speech . To Say . To Talk

Notes

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

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

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