Chinese Character 雁 Meanings and components.

Form

雁

Meaning

雁 meaning[3] in English

Wild Goose.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 雁 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'cliff' radical in … (厂) , and (倠)

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

In cangjie it is written with MOOG

How to write 雁

To write雁yan4wild goose you should write a combination of 厂chang3'cliff' radical … , 倠sui1 arranged in a 吕 shape:

厂 + 倠 = 雁

雁 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

雁
Pinyin:yan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Wild Goose
厂
Pinyin:chang3
Meaning[3]: 'Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 27), Occurring In 原, 历, 压 Etc
倠
Pinyin:sui1 Shape:吅
亻
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 9)
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird

Notes

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

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

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