Chinese Character 陶 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

陶 meaning^[3] in English

Surname Tao.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 陶 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (阝) , and pottery (匋)

Its radical^[1] is: 阜 (fu4) which means: Abundant, Mound, .阜fu4abundant

In cangjie it is written with NLPOU

How to write 陶

To write陶tao2surname Tao you should write a combination of 阝fu4 , 匋tao2pottery arranged in a 吅 shape:

阝 + 匋 = 陶

陶 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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