Chinese Character 雎 Meanings and components.

Form

雎

Meaning

雎 meaning[3] in English

Osprey.

Fish Hawk.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with BMOG

How to write 雎

To write雎ju1osprey you should write a combination of 且qie3and , 隹zhui1short-tailed bird arranged in a 吅 shape:

且 + 隹 = 雎

雎 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

雎
Pinyin:ju1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Osprey . Fish Hawk
且
Pinyin:qie3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: And . Moreover . Yet . For The Time Being . To Be About To . Both (... And...)
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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