燕, a swallow, serves as a phonetic component. Continue reading “Component swallow 燕”
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Component mouse 鼠
鼠, mouse, rat, serves as semantic to express things related to mouse/rat, animals of rat family, or mouse-like animals, or phonetic component. Continue reading “Component mouse 鼠”
Component elephant 象
象, elephant, serves as phonetic or semantic component. Continue reading “Component elephant 象”
Component deer 鹿
鹿, deer, serves as semantic or phonetic component. Continue reading “Component deer 鹿”
Component bird 焉
焉, originally bird, is used as a modal particle with meanings: thereupon, then; how? why? where? It serves as phonetic component to form characters. Most of the characters formed by the phonetic component 焉 have the same pronunciation as that of 焉.