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Chinese Character: 肆
Written in English: si

1. Basic Information

Simplified
Chinese Character: 		肆
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Traditional
Chinese Character: 		肆
Chinese pinyin(s)
or written in English: 		si
What is Chinese pinyin?
Pinyin(s) with tone
And ronunciation(s): 		sì
What is Chinese pinyin with tone?
Component Strokes:Heng, Shu, Heng, Heng, Heng, Pie Zhe, Dian, Heng Zhe, Heng, Heng, Heng, Heng, Shu
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3. Meanings and Phrases for your Chinese tattoos

Meanings:
  1. (of an action) done deliberately for no good reason; wanton; unbridled;
  2. shop; store;
  3. four (used for the numeral four on cheques, etc to avoid mistakes or alterations);
Phrases helpful to understanding and Chinese tattoos:
  1. bao yu zhi si - shop of salted fish; market of fish.
  2. bao yu zhi si - evil, objectionable environment to which one becomes accustomed after long exposure.
  3. cha liao jiu si - tea-houses and wine shops.
  4. cha si - teahouse.

About Chinese Character

Learn Chinese characters to avoid your Chinese tattoos running by contraries

Chinese characters look rather complicated, but actually they are made up of simple strokes, and there are total 31 Chinese strokes according to the text book of the primary school in China. Learn more about Chinese strokes.

Chinese characters are classified into single-component and compound characters according to the number of radicals they contain.

A single-component character consists of only one complete and independent part which is made up of strokes, such as gong, kai, chang. Despite their small proportion in the Chinese characters, single-component characters are used rather frequently. Some are used as a part of a compound character. Therefore, they play an important role in the Chinese characters.

Compound characters are those composed of two or more independent components. Most Chinese characters are compound ones. According to how components form characters in terms of the spatial structure, the characters can be divided into those structured with left and right, upper and lower, inside and outside, and those with special structure. Among them, those structured with left and right and upper and lower account for over 80% of the Chinese characters.

The basic structure of the left-right structured character is as: hao, ming, zhi, wan, shu, and zuo.

The basic structure of up-down structured compound characters is as tai, ye, nan, xing, cha, and jing.

In addition to left-right-structured and up-down-structured characters, there are inside-outside-structured and special structured characters in Chinese. (1) Characters with two surrounding sides: bian, yan, ju, ke, ting and chuang; with three surrounding sides: qu, yi, tong, zhou, xiong, han; with four surrounding sides: hui, guo, yin. (2) Special-structured characters: pin, jing, zuo, cheng.

Most single Chinese character has more than one meaning. Therefore, when you want to make Chinese tattoos, please pay attention to learning its meaning to avoid its running by contraries. By comparison, the phrase or words group is better.