Chinese Character 魃 Meanings and components.

Form

魃

Meaning

魃 meaning[3] in English

Drought Demon.

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Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: 鬼 (gui3) which means: Ghost, Demon, Terrible, Damnable, Clever, Sly, Crafty, (Suffix For Sb With A Certain Vice Or Addiction Etc), One Of The 28 Constellations, .鬼gui3ghost

In cangjie it is written with HIIKK

How to write 魃

To write魃ba2drought demon you should write a combination of 鬼gui3ghost , 犮ba2old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

鬼 + 犮 = 魃

魃 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

魃
Pinyin:ba2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Drought Demon
鬼
Pinyin:gui3
Meaning[3]: Ghost . Demon . Terrible . Damnable . Clever . Sly . Crafty . (Suffix For Sb With A Certain Vice Or Addiction Etc) . One Of The 28 Constellations
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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