Chinese Character 需 Meanings and components.

Form

需

需 meaning^[3] in English

To Require.

To Need.

To Want.

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 需 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are rain (雨) , and and (而)

Its radical^[1] is: 雨 (yu3) which means: Rain, Cl:陣|阵[Zhen4],場|场[Chang2], .雨yu3rain

In cangjie it is written with MBMBL

To write需xu1to require you should write a combination of 雨yu3rain , 而er2and arranged in a 吕 shape:

雨 + 而 = 需

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

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

Meaning^[3]: To Require . To Need . To Want . Necessity . Need

Meaning^[3]: Rain . Cl:陣|阵[Zhen4],場|场[Chang2]

Meaning^[3]: And . As Well As . And So . But (Not) . Yet (Not) . (Indicates Causal Relation) . (Indicates Change Of State) . (Indicates Contrast)