Chinese Character 鳄 Meanings and components.

Form

鳄

Meaning

鳄 meaning[3] in English

Variant Of 鱷|鳄[E4].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 鳄 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Yu (鱼) , and beat a drum (咢)

Its radical[1] is: 魚 (yu2) which means: Surname Yu, .魚yu2surname Yu

In cangjie it is written with NMRRS

How to write 鳄

To write鳄e4variant of … you should write a combination of 鱼yu2surname Yu , 咢e4beat a … arranged in a 吅 shape:

鱼 + 咢 = 鳄

鳄 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

鳄
Pinyin:e4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 鱷|鳄[E4]
鱼
Pinyin:yu2
Meaning[3]: Surname Yu
咢
Pinyin:e4 Shape:咒
Meaning[3]: Beat A Drum . Startle
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
亏
Pinyin:kui1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Deficiency . Deficit . Luckily . It'S Lucky That... . (Often Ironically) Fancy That...
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
丂
Pinyin:kao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: 'Breath' Or 'Sigh' Component In Chinese Characters

Notes

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

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

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