Chinese Character 餿 Meanings and components.

Form

餿

Meaning

餿 meaning[3] in English

Rancid.

Soured (As Food).

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with OIHXE

How to write 餿

To write餿sou1rancid you should write a combination of 食shi2to eat , 叟sou3old gentleman arranged in a 吅 shape:

食 + 叟 = 餿

餿 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

餿
Pinyin:sou1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Rancid . Soured (As Food)
食
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: To Eat . Food . Animal Feed . Eclipse
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
良
Pinyin:liang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Good . Very . Very Much
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
艮
Pinyin:gen3
Meaning[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy
叟
Pinyin:sou3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Old Gentleman . Old Man
𦥔
Pinyin:𦥔5 Shape:回
臼
Pinyin:jiu4
Meaning[3]: Mortar
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

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

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

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