乐, originally a pictographic character of a wooden musical instrument, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “乐 a wooden musical instrument”
Category: Character Components
囗 enclosure
囗, ancient form of 围 enclose/enclosure and synonymous with 国 state, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Very interestingly, all the characters formed by 囗 have the same structure. Continue reading “囗 enclosure”
句 to bend
句 originally meant “bend” and has several different extended meanings. It has two pronunciations jù and gōu. Among all its meanings, the meaning of “sentence” is used most. 句 serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “句 to bend”
莫 Sun sets in the grass
莫 serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Nearly most of the characters formed by the phonetic component 莫 have the same consonant “m”and vowel “o” for the pronunciation. Continue reading “莫 Sun sets in the grass”
勿 a knife cutting off the useless things
勿 is compound ideograph, depicting a knife cutting off the useless things such as melon skin, vegetable roots, etc. 勿 serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “勿 a knife cutting off the useless things”