Chinese Character 谙 Meanings and components.

Form

谙

Meaning

谙 meaning[3] in English

To Be Versed In.

To Know Well.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 谙 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'speech' or 'words' … (讠) , and sound (音)

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

In cangjie it is written with IVYTA

How to write 谙

To write谙an1to be … you should write a combination of 讠yan2'speech' or … , 音yin1sound arranged in a 吅 shape:

讠 + 音 = 谙

谙 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

谙
Pinyin:an1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Be Versed In . To Know Well
讠
Pinyin:yan2
Meaning[3]: 'Speech' Or 'Words' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 149) . See Also 言字旁[Yan2 Zi4 Pang2]
音
Pinyin:yin1
Meaning[3]: Sound . Noise . Note (Of Musical Scale) . Tone . News . Syllable . Reading (Phonetic Value Of A Character)
立
Pinyin:li4
Meaning[3]: Surname Li
日
Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan

Notes

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

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

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