彗, a compound ideographic character of a hand holding a broom made of bamboo, serves as a phonetic component to form characters that have the same pronunciation as 彗. Continue reading “彗 a hand holding a broom made of bamboo”
Author: Decode Mandarin Chinese
采 a hand picking from a tree
采 cǎi, originally a hand picking from a tree, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the component 采 mostly have the same pronunciation cǎi. Continue reading “采 a hand picking from a tree”
Component 乇 a plant stem bearing leaves
乇, originally a plant stem bearing leaves, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 乇 a plant stem bearing leaves”
Component 才 a plant in initial growth stage
才, a pictographic character of a plant in initial growth stage, serves as phonetic component to form characters. 才 serves as semantic component in the compound ideographic character 闭. Continue reading “Component 才 a plant in initial growth stage”
Component 果 fruit
果, a pictographic character of fruit, serves as phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 果 fruit”