Chinese Character 搦 Meanings and components.

Form

搦

Meaning

搦 meaning[3] in English

(Literary) To Hold (In The Hand).

To Challenge.

To Provoke.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 搦 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and weak (弱)

Its radical[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QNMM

How to write 搦

To write搦nuo4(literary) to … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 弱ruo4weak arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 弱 = 搦

搦 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

搦
Pinyin:nuo4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: (Literary) To Hold (In The Hand) . To Challenge . To Provoke
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
弱
Pinyin:ruo4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Weak . Feeble . Young . Inferior . (Following A Decimal Or Fraction) Slightly Less Than
𢎥
Pinyin:juan4 Shape:吕
弓
Pinyin:gong1
Meaning[3]: Surname Gong
二
Pinyin:er4
Meaning[3]: Two . 2 . (Beijing Dialect) Stupid

Notes

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

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

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