Chinese Character 髡 Meanings and components.

Form

髡

Meaning

髡 meaning[3] in English

Scalping.

To Make The Head Bald (As Corporal Punishment).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 髡 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are hair (髟) , and surname Wu (兀)

Its radical[1] is: 髟 (biao1) which means: Hair, Shaggy, .髟biao1hair

In cangjie it is written with SHMU

How to write 髡

To write髡kun1scalping you should write a combination of 髟biao1hair , 兀wu4surname Wu arranged in a 吕 shape:

髟 + 兀 = 髡

髡 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

髡
Pinyin:kun1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Scalping . To Make The Head Bald (As Corporal Punishment)
髟
Pinyin:biao1
Meaning[3]: Hair . Shaggy
镸
Pinyin:chang2
Meaning[3]: 'Long' Or 'To Grow' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 168)
彡
Pinyin:shan1
Meaning[3]: 'Bristle' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 59)
兀
Pinyin:wu4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Wu
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
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

Notes

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

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

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