日, pictographic character of the sun, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 日 have to do with the sun, light, time, dryness, etc such as 明, 早, 晚, 旧, 旭, 时, 旷, 晒, 昆, 旺, 昏, 晕, 暖. Continue reading “Component 日 the sun”
Category: Character Components
Component stork 雚
雚 guàn, cognate of 鹳, a stork, serves as phonetic component. Continue reading “Component stork 雚”
Component a perching bird on a nest 西
西, originally a bird perches on a nest, means: west(ern), westward, occident Continue reading “Component a perching bird on a nest 西”
Component swallow 燕
燕, a swallow, serves as a phonetic component. Continue reading “Component swallow 燕”
Component mouse 鼠
鼠, mouse, rat, serves as semantic to express things related to mouse/rat, animals of rat family, or mouse-like animals, or phonetic component. Continue reading “Component mouse 鼠”