The component 寸, one of the variants of 手, serves as a semantic component to form associative compound ideographs 会意字 and also as a phonetic component to form phono-semantic characters. Continue reading “寸 hand III”
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爫 hand XI
爫 is derived from hand too. Characters formed by the component 爫 have to do with hands, actions of hands, etc, such as 采，觅，受，etc. Continue reading “爫 hand XI”
廾 hand v
Use your two hands to unfasten a bolt, then you 开/open a door. 开 means “open” because of this part 廾.
又 hand IV
又, a variant of 手, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 又 have to do with hand-related actions or hand-related extended meanings. Continue reading “又 hand IV”
手 hand XII
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, the twelfth variant of hand in Chinese, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Although there are not so many characters formed by this component, recognizing it helps you understand the meanings of the characters with this component. Continue reading “手 hand XII”