生, originally growing seedling or sprout, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 生 growing seedling”
Author: Decode Mandarin Chinese
Component 瓜 gourd/melon
瓜, gourd/melon, serves as phonetic as well as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 瓜 express meanings related to melons or vine plants. Continue reading “Component 瓜 gourd/melon”
Get it hot/M.I.C.男团
Component 屯 a sprouting seed
屯, a compound ideographic character of a seedling, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 屯 a sprouting seed”
Component 之 go
之 originally meant: put the foot at the beginning place to go. It serves as phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 之 go”