Chinese Character 馏 Meanings and components.

Form

馏

Meaning

馏 meaning[3] in English

To Distill.

To Break A Liquid Substance Up Into Components By Boiling.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with NVHHW

How to write 馏

To write馏liu2to distill you should write a combination of 饣shi2'to eat' … , 留liu2old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

饣 + 留 = 馏

馏 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

馏
Pinyin:liu2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Distill . To Break A Liquid Substance Up Into Components By Boiling
饣
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: 'To Eat' Or 'Food' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 184)
留
Pinyin:liu2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 留[Liu2]
卯
Pinyin:mao3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Mortise (Slot Cut Into Wood To Receive A Tenon) . 4th Earthly Branch: 5-7 A.M., 2nd Solar Month (6th March-4th April), Year Of The Rabbit . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 90° (East) . Variant Of 鉚|铆[Mao3] . To Exert One'S Strength
𠂎
Pinyin:𠂎5 Shape:一
卩
Pinyin:jie2
Meaning[3]: 'Seal' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 26)
田
Pinyin:tian2
Meaning[3]: Surname Tian

Notes

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

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

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