足, a compound ideographic character of a foot, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 足 express meanings related to the foot, foot movements, foot actions, etc. 足 also serves as phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component foot 足”
Category: Body parts
刍 a hand holding a bunch of hay
刍, a compound ideograph of a hand holding a bunch of hay/grass, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the phonetic component 刍 have the same or similar pronunciation as 刍.
寸 hand III
The component 寸, one of the variants of 手, serves as a semantic component to form associative compound ideographs 会意字 and also as a phonetic component to form phono-semantic characters. Continue reading “寸 hand III”
爫 hand XI
爫 is derived from hand too. Characters formed by the component 爫 have to do with hands, actions of hands, etc, such as 采，觅，受，etc. Continue reading “爫 hand XI”
攵 hand VIII
A man holding a stick is with a cow. What is he doing? He is pasturing (牧). Check out the component 攵, the eighth variant of 手. Continue reading “攵 hand VIII”