Chinese Character 遜 Meanings and components.

Form

遜

Meaning

遜 meaning[3] in English

To Abdicate.

Modest.

Yielding.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 遜 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are to walk (side … (辶) , and surname Sun (孫)

Its radical[1] is: 辵 (chuo4) which means: To Walk (Side Part Of Split Character), .辵chuo4to walk …

In cangjie it is written with YNDF

How to write 遜

To write遜xun4to abdicate you should write a combination of 辶chuo4to walk … , 孫sun1surname Sun arranged in a 吅 shape:

辶 + 孫 = 遜

遜 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

遜
Pinyin:xun4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Abdicate . Modest . Yielding . Unpretentious . Inferior To . (Slang) To Suck
辶
Pinyin:chuo4 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: To Walk (Side Part Of Split Character)
孫
Pinyin:sun1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Sun
子
Pinyin:zi5
Meaning[3]: Son . Child . Seed . Egg . Small Thing . 1st Earthly Branch: 11 P.M.-1 A.M., Midnight, 11th Solar Month (7th December To 5th January), Year Of The Rat . Viscount, Fourth Of Five Orders Of Nobility 五等爵位[Wu3 Deng3 Jue2 Wei4] . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 0° (North)
系
Pinyin:xi4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Connect . To Relate To . To Tie Up . To Bind . To Be (Literary)
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
糸
Pinyin:mi4
Meaning[3]: Fine Silk . Kangxi Radical 120
幺
Pinyin:yao1
Meaning[3]: Surname Yao
小
Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

Notes

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

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

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