Chinese Character 鸠 Meanings and components.

Form

鸠

Meaning

鸠 meaning[3] in English

Turtledove.

(Literary) To Gather.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 鸠 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are nine (九) , and variant of 屌[diao3] (鸟)

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

In cangjie it is written with KNPYM

How to write 鸠

To write鸠jiu1turtledove you should write a combination of 九jiu3nine , 鸟niao3variant of … arranged in a 吅 shape:

九 + 鸟 = 鸠

鸠 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

鸠
Pinyin:jiu1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Turtledove . (Literary) To Gather
九
Pinyin:jiu3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Nine . 9
鸟
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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