Chinese Character 隻 Meanings and components.

Form

隻

Meaning

隻 meaning[3] in English

Classifier For Birds And Certain Animals, One Of A Pair, Some Utensils, Vessels Etc.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 隻 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are short-tailed bird (隹) , and (once) again (又)

Its radical[1] is: 隹 (zhui1) which means: Short-Tailed Bird, .隹zhui1short-tailed bird

In cangjie it is written with OGE

How to write 隻

To write隻zhi1classifier for … you should write a combination of 隹zhui1short-tailed bird , 又you4(once) again arranged in a 吕 shape:

隹 + 又 = 隻

隻 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

隻
Pinyin:zhi1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Classifier For Birds And Certain Animals, One Of A Pair, Some Utensils, Vessels Etc
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

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

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

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