Chinese Character 餮 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

餮 meaning[3] in English

Gluttonous.

See 饕餮[Tao1 Tie4], Zoomorphic Mask Motif.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are to exterminate (殄) , and to eat (食)

Its radical[1] is: (shi2) which means: To Eat, Food, Animal Feed, Eclipse, .shi2to eat

In cangjie it is written with MHOIV

How to write 餮

To writetie4gluttonous you should write a combination of tian3to exterminate , shi2to eat arranged in a shape:

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餮 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:tie4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Gluttonous . See 饕餮[Tao1 Tie4], Zoomorphic Mask Motif

Pinyin:tian3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Exterminate

Pinyin:dai3
Meaning[3]: Bad . Wicked . Evil . Kangxi Radical 78

Pinyin:xi1
Meaning[3]: Dusk . Evening . Taiwan Pr. [Xi4]

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

Pinyin:zhen3 Shape:

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Pinyin:shan1
Meaning[3]: 'Bristle' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 59)

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: To Eat . Food . Animal Feed . Eclipse

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Pinyin:liang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Good . Very . Very Much

Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Pinyin:gen3
Meaning[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 餮in English or Chinese