Author: Decode Mandarin Chinese
Vocabulary about beans
Do you like eating beans? How many Chinese names of beans do you know? It’s your time to take all these beans. Continue reading “Vocabulary about beans”
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Component flesh 月
月, originally flesh, serves as semantic or phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component flesh 月 express things related to organs, limbs, veins, muscles, parts of the body, etc. Continue reading “Component flesh 月”
刍 a hand holding a bunch of hay
刍, a compound ideograph of a hand holding a bunch of hay/grass, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the phonetic component 刍 have the same or similar pronunciation as 刍.