犬, dog, serves as semantic component to express meanings related to dog or other animals.犬 is written as 犭in semantic-phonetic compounds. Continue reading “Component dog 犬”
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Component sheep 羊
羊, sheep, serves as semantic or phonetic component. Continue reading “Component sheep 羊”
Component cattle 牛
牛, cattle, serves as semantic component. Continue reading “Component cattle 牛”
Component horse 马
马, horse, serves as semantic component/radical to form characters. Most of the characters formed by the component horse 马 are semantic left-phonetic right 驴, 驶, 驰, etc, and some are phonetic up – semantic down such as 驾, 骜, 驽. Continue reading “Component horse 马”
Component bird 鸟
bird 鸟 mainly serves as semantic component though it can serve as phonetic component too. Characters formed by the semantic component bird express things related to bird, such as names of different birds. Continue reading “Component bird 鸟”