Chinese Character 颚 Meanings and components.

Form

颚

Meaning

颚 meaning[3] in English

Jaw.

Palate.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 颚 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are beat a drum (咢) , and head (页)

Its radical[1] is: 頁 (ye4) which means: Head, .頁ye4head

In cangjie it is written with RSMBO

How to write 颚

To write颚e4jaw you should write a combination of 咢e4beat a … , 页ye4head arranged in a 吅 shape:

咢 + 页 = 颚

颚 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

颚
Pinyin:e4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Jaw . Palate
咢
Pinyin:e4 Shape:咒
Meaning[3]: Beat A Drum . Startle
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
亏
Pinyin:kui1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Deficiency . Deficit . Luckily . It'S Lucky That... . (Often Ironically) Fancy That...
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
丂
Pinyin:kao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: 'Breath' Or 'Sigh' Component In Chinese Characters
页
Pinyin:ye4
Meaning[3]: Head
丆
Pinyin:han3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: One Of The Characters Used In Kwukyel (Phonetic 'Myeon'), An Ancient Korean Writing System
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
贝
Pinyin:bei4
Meaning[3]: Surname Bei
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

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

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

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