Chinese Character 鸛 Meanings and components.

Form

鸛

Meaning

鸛 meaning[3] in English

Crane.

Stork.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 鸛 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (archaic) stork (雚) , and variant of 屌[diao3] (鳥)

Its radical[1] is: 鳥 (niao3) which means: Variant Of 屌[Diao3], Penis, .鳥niao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TGHAF

How to write 鸛

To write鸛guan4crane you should write a combination of 雚guan4(archaic) stork , 鳥niao3variant of … arranged in a 吅 shape:

雚 + 鳥 = 鸛

鸛 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

鸛
Pinyin:guan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Crane . Stork
雚
Pinyin:guan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: (Archaic) Stork . Heron
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
𨾴
Pinyin:gui1 Shape:咒
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird
鳥
Pinyin:niao3
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 屌[Diao3] . Penis

Notes

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

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

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