Chinese Character 髮 Meanings and components.

Form

髮

Meaning

髮 meaning[3] in English

Hair.

Taiwan Pr. [Fa3].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 髮 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are hair (髟) , and old variant of … (犮)

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

In cangjie it is written with SHIKE

How to write 髮

To write髮fa4hair you should write a combination of 髟biao1hair , 犮ba2old variant … arranged in a 吕 shape:

髟 + 犮 = 髮

髮 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

髮
Pinyin:fa4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Hair . Taiwan Pr. [Fa3]
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)
犮
Pinyin:ba2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 拔[Ba2]
犬
Pinyin:quan3
Meaning[3]: Dog . Kangxi Radical 94
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Notes

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

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

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