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”
Category: Plants
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”
Component 林 forest
林, a compound ideograph of the forest, serves as phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the sematic component 林 have to do with the tree. Continue reading “Component 林 forest”