Chinese Character 馘 Meanings and components.

Form

馘

Meaning

馘 meaning[3] in English

Cut Off The Left Ear Of The Slain.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 馘 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are head (首) , and maybe (或)

Its radical[1] is: 首 (shou3) which means: Head, Chief, First (Occasion, Thing Etc), Classifier For Poems, Songs Etc, .首shou3head

In cangjie it is written with TUIRM

How to write 馘

To write馘guo2cut off … you should write a combination of 首shou3head , 或huo4maybe arranged in a 吅 shape:

首 + 或 = 馘

馘 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

馘
Pinyin:guo2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Cut Off The Left Ear Of The Slain
首
Pinyin:shou3
Meaning[3]: Head . Chief . First (Occasion, Thing Etc) . Classifier For Poems, Songs Etc
䒑
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
自
Pinyin:zi4
Meaning[3]: Self . Oneself . From . Since . Naturally . Surely
目
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
或
Pinyin:huo4 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Maybe . Perhaps . Might . Possibly . Or
戈
Pinyin:ge1
Meaning[3]: Surname Ge
弋
Pinyin:yi4
Meaning[3]: To Shoot
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
一
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
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

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

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

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