凵, cognate of 坎, is a pictographic character. 凵 serves as a semantic component to form characters which express meanings related to “hollow, sunken, depressed, sunk, etc” such as bowl, trap, groove, ridge, pit, etc.
儿, a pictographic character of a baby with a soft fontanel, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 儿 express meanings related to person, such as 兄, 党光, 先, 兀, 允, 兆, 兜, etc. Characters formed by the semantic component 儿 笔划 汉字 拼音 笔划 汉字…
勹 , a bowing person with arms bent, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 勹 express things related to person, or extended meanings such as hold, wrap, crawl, etc. Characters formed by the semantic component 勹 旬包匈匍匐 笔划 汉字 拼音 笔划 汉字 拼音 2 勹 bāo…
聿, cognate of 筆(笔), originally a writing brush. In oracle bone script and bronze script, 聿 was like a hand hold a writing brush. It serves as phonetic as well as semantic component to form characters. 筆 was created later to replace 聿 to mean a writing brush. ⺮ indicates that the writing brush is made of bamboo. The simplified form…
