Word and Radical Components of 尾灯

The Chinese word 尾灯 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
尾灯		1. Simplified form of 尾燈

尾灯 ⇨ 尾 + 灯

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
尾	wěi, yǐ	1. tail
		2. end
		3. last; final
灯		1. Simplified form of 燈

尾 ⇨ 尸 + 毛

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
尸	shī	1. corpse
		2. (historical) a living person who represents the dead person during a rite
		3. dead body
		4. Simplified form of 屍
毛	máo, Máo	1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
		雞毛 - chicken feather
		2. (dialectal) hair on the head
		3. mildew; mold
		4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
		一毛錢 - a jiao / ten cents
		三塊兩毛 - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
		五毛黨 - wumao
		5. coarse; raw; semifinished
		毛茶 - raw tea
		6. (of an amount) gross
		Antonyms: 淨
		毛利 - gross profit
		毛重 - gross weight
		7. rough; sketchy
		毛估 - to make a rough estimate
		8. small; little
		毛毛雨 - drizzle
		毛孩子zi - mere child
		9. careless; unthinking
		毛手毛腳 - to be careless
		10. panicked; scared; nervous
		把我嚇毛了 - to have scared me
		11. angry; furious
		12. (of currency) depreciated
		13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
		有毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
		管毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
		14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
		Synonyms: 春
		你識條毛咩？ - Do you know anything at all?
		15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
		白毛 - the character with white-coloured hair
		假毛 - wig
		毛澤-東 - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China
		16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead.

灯 ⇨ 火 + 丁

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
火	huǒ	1. fire; flame
		可以跟你借一個火嗎？ - Can I borrow a light?
		2. fire (as a disaster); inferno
		3. red; fiery; bright; brilliant
		4. to burn down
		5. light; torch
		6. (dialectal) light; lamp
		7. anger; rage; wrath
		8. to become enraged
		9. angry; furious
		10. (TCM) internal heat
		11. firearm; ammunition; weapon
		12. war; warfare
		13. thriving; brisk
		14. urgent; pressing
		15. (neologism) to become popular; to go viral
		16. (neologism) to be popular; to be viral
		17. (Cantonese) watt (unit of power)
		※(Definitely, "火" here is a unit of brightness (luminous intensity). However, the brightness of a luminous device is measured in watts in life because of luminous intensity's dependence on powe
		20 火嘅燈膽 - 20-watt lightbulb
		18. Short for 火星, Mars
		19. (Cantonese) roasted
		Synonyms: 烤, 燒
		火鴨 - roasted duck
丁	dīng	1. the fourth of the ten heavenly stems
		2. fourth
		丁烷 - butane (fourth alkane)
		3. robust; vigorous
		4. male adult; man
		壯丁 - able-bodied man
		5. person; may specifically refer to member of a family
		人丁 - person
		6. small cube
		肉丁 - pork cubes
		7. (literary) to encounter
		8. (Hong Kong Cantonese) (Short for (lw, zh, 出前一丁, t=Demae Itcho), a type of instant noodles.)
		撈lou1丁 -
		丁肇-中 - Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Chinese-American physicist)
	zhēng	9. Only used in 丁丁
		10. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) penis
		11. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to masturbate; to have sexual fantasy towards another individual
		12. Variant of 叮
		13. Variant of 盯
		14. Variant of 釘
		15. Variant of 靪

丁 ⇨ 一 + 亅

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
一	一	1. one
		一長一短 - yī cháng yī duǎn - one short and one long
		一死一傷 - yī sǐ yī shāng - one dead, one injured
		一高一低 - yī gāo yī dī - one high and one low
		一天一夜 - yī tiān yī yè - one day and one night
		一日一夜 - jat1 jat6 jat1 je6 - one day and one night, C
		一左一右 - yī zuǒ yī yòu - one left, one right
		2. each; every
		給他們一人一顆蘋果。 (Gěi tā men yī rén yī kē píngguǒ.) - Give them an apple each.
		3. single; alone
		獨自一人 - dúzì yī rén - a solitary person, one person
		專一 - zhuānyī - single-minded, monogamous
		4. whole; entire; all: throughout
		他們在海灘上玩了一下午。 (Tāmen zài hǎitān shàng wán le yī xiàwǔ.) - They played the whole afternoon on the beach.
		5. same; identical
		大小不一 - dàxiǎo bùyī - not having the same size
		大細不一 - daai6 sai3 bat1 jat1 - not having the same size, C
		6. (classical) another; alternative
		蟋蟀，一名促織。 (Xīshuài, yī míng cùzhī.) - Crickets, also called cùzhī lit. another name being cùzhī.
		7. (formal) certain aforementioned
		「旋律」一詞中的「旋」字 - “xuánlǜ” yī cí zhōng de “xuán” zì - the character (m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋) within the word m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋律
		8. With the verb modified reduplicated, expressing the transience of the verb:
		9. Indicating that the action has occurred only once
		10. 看一看 - kàn yī kàn - to have a look
		11. 望一望 - mong6 jat1 mong6 - to have a look, C
		12. Indicating the intention to try
		13. 算一算 - suàn yī suàn - to try to calculate it
		14. 計一計 - gai3 jat1 gai3 - to try to calculate it, C
		15. once; as soon as; upon
		一到 OP 就卡。 (Yī dào OP jiù kǎ.) - It slows down once I get to the opening.
		我一拍了照片，她就立即成為眾人矚目的焦點。 (Wǒ yī pāi le zhàopiàn, tā jiù lìjí chéngwèi zhòngrén zhǔmù de jiāodiǎn.) - As soon as I took a picture, she ran towards the limelight.
		一見如故 - yījiànrúgù - to hit it off
		一至於此 - yīzhìyúcǐ - How did things ever get so far?
		16. (gay slang) top
		一號 - yīhào - a top
		17. (Cantonese, argot, euphemistic) to die
		18. =====Usage notes=====
	yī	19. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
		20. one
		21. each; every
		22. whole; entire; all
	yíeijing dialect	23. (Beijing) one
		24. =====Usage notes=====
亅	jué	1. a backward hook