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”
攵 hand VIII
A man holding a stick is with a cow. What is he doing? He is pasturing (牧). Check out the component 攵, the eighth variant of 手. Continue reading “攵 hand VIII”
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”