素 - 中华5000

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素

: Bronze inscriptions

: Seal script

: Official

: Regular script

The structure of Chinese characters can be classified into 9 major groups. These include the primary, left-right, left-middle-right, top-bottom, top-middle-bottom, semi-surrounded, tri-surrounded, fully-surrounded and the embracing structural compositions. The pictographs of the Chinese characters are personally written and drawn by the author of “An Encyclopedia of Chinese Characters”, to aid the in-depth understanding of Chinese characters.

The black lines denote the different categories of Chinese characters and the blue lines denote the structural details of the characters.

笔画：10 Stroke

Radicals：糸

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　　素’s root meaning was undyed silk. Bronze inscriptions depict withering flowers and two hands holding silk thread. In seal script, the component symbolizing hands is removed. In regular script, the top component shows a seedling (i.e. young and smooth); while the bottom component represents strands of silk, i.e. smooth and undyed silk products.

字义

　① 本色；白色 of original color, white ：素服 plain clothes. ② 颜色单纯 plain color：素淡 plain and simple│素描 sketch. ③ 本质；本性 of original：素质 character; quality. ④ 构成事物的基本成分 fundamental; basic ：元素 basic element│要素 main element. ⑤ 平时；向来 usually; habitually ：平素 usually. ⑥ 植物类食品 vegetable ：吃素 vegetarian.

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