Chinese Character 饕 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

饕 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 roar (號) , 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 RUOIV

How to write 饕

To writetao1gluttonous you should write a combination of hao4roar , shi2to eat arranged in a shape:

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饕 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:tao1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Gluttonous . See 饕餮[Tao1 Tie4], Zoomorphic Mask Motif

Pinyin:hao4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Roar . Cry . Cl:個|个[Ge4]

Pinyin:hao4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Roar . Cry . Cl:個|个[Ge4]

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:kao3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: 'Breath' Or 'Sigh' Component In Chinese Characters

Pinyin:hu3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Tiger . Cl:隻|只[Zhi1]

Pinyin:hu1
Meaning[3]: Stripes Of A Tiger . 'Tiger' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 141)

Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

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 饕in English or Chinese