子, a pictographic character of a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, serves as semantic component to express meanings related to children or extended meanings such as 孔, 孝, 字, 季, 孩, 孤, 孪, 学, 孙, 存, etc. Continue reading “Component 子 a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes”
Category: Pictograms
Component 大 a man stretching out four limbs
大, a pictographic character of a man stretching out four limbs, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 大 express meanings related to person, something big or extended meanings such as 太, 夫, 天, 央, 奇. Continue reading “Component 大 a man stretching out four limbs”
Component 女 a woman on her knees
女, a pictographic character of a woman on her knees, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 女 express meanings related to women, names, beauty, or bad temper, such as 她, 妈, 姨, 姑, 姓, 娜, 奶, 妆, 妃, etc. Continue reading “Component 女 a woman on her knees”
Component 人 a person
人, a pictographic of a person, servers as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 人 relates to person such as 伞, 仑, 仓, 从, 会, 以, 余, etc. Continue reading “Component 人 a person”
Component 亻
亻, derived from the pictographic character 人, serves as semantic component to form characters. 亻is a super important component. Characters formed by the component 亻expresses meanings related to person, acts of person, names of person, characters of person, etc. Continue reading “Component 亻”