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”
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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 snake 它
它 tā, originally a snake, is used as a pronoun “it” in modern Chinese. It can act as phonetic component to form characters. Many of the characters formed by the phonetic component snake 它 have the same pronunciation tuó. Continue reading “Component snake 它”
They have the exactly same pronunciation as that of 平
平 is so loyal!
All these characters with the component 平 are pronounced the same as 平 píng. As for their meanings, just check the semantic parts, e.g 枰 ＝ 木 + 平（枰, a kind of tree)，鲆 ＝ 鱼 + 平(鲆, a kind of fish).
Characters with component 四 still pronounced the same as 四
They all have a component 四 and have the same pronunciation as that of 四 sì Continue reading “Characters with component 四 still pronounced the same as 四”