辛, a pictographic character of a knife, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 辛 have to do with crime, criminal law, spicy things, etc such as 辨, 辞, 辣, 辟, 辫, 辜, 辠, etc. Continue reading “Component 辛 knife”
Category: Weapons/arms/war
Component 矢 arrow
矢 shǐ, a pictographic character of an arrow, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 矢 have to do with arrows such as 矩, 矫, 矬, 矮, 短, 疾, 雉, etc. Continue reading “Component 矢 arrow”
王 axe
王 wáng, a pictographic character of an axe, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Don’t mix it with the semantic component 玉. Continue reading “王 axe”
Component 兵 a pair of hands holding a weapon
兵, a compound ideographic character of a pair of hands holding a weapon, serves as phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 兵 a pair of hands holding a weapon”
Component flying object 至
至, with original meaning: a flying object (bird/arrow) arrives. It serves as semantic or phonetic component to form characters. Character formed by the semantic component 至 express meanings related to arrive, reach, etc, Continue reading “Component flying object 至”