Chinese Character 饮 Meanings and components.

Form

饮

Meaning

饮 meaning[3] in English

Old Variant Of 飲|饮[Yin3].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 饮 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'to eat' or … (饣) , and deficient (欠)

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

In cangjie it is written with NVNO

How to write 饮

To write饮yin3old variant … you should write a combination of 饣shi2'to eat' … , 欠qian4deficient arranged in a 吅 shape:

饣 + 欠 = 饮

饮 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

饮
Pinyin:yin3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 飲|饮[Yin3]
饣
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: 'To Eat' Or 'Food' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 184)
欠
Pinyin:qian4
Meaning[3]: Deficient . To Owe . To Lack . Yawn

Notes

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

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

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