鱼, fish, serves as semantic or phonetic component to form characters. Because fish 鱼 is an important food source, there are a fair number of characters formed by the semantic component fish 鱼. Totally there are about 300 characters with the semantic component fish 鱼. Continue reading “Component fish 鱼”
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Component tortoise 龟
龟 resembles a tortoise and means tortoise. The tortoise’s feet are omitted in the simplified form. 龟 serves as semantic component. There is only one character formed by the component tortoise 龟. Continue reading “Component tortoise 龟”
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Component animal’s foot 釆
釆 biàn, originally an animal’s foot, and its meaning was extended to “differentiate, distinguish, etc”. 釆 serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component animal’s foot 釆 express meanings related to “differentiate, distinguish, etc”. Continue reading “Component animal’s foot 釆”
Component meat 肉
肉, flesh, meat, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component meat express meanings related to meat such as 腐 瘸 臋 肏 胬 朒 胾 胔 脔. Continue reading “Component meat 肉”