豆, originally a food container, serves as a semantic component to express meanings related to food container or bean. 豆 also serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “豆 a food container”
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黑 soot in a container over a fire
黑, a compound character of soot in a container over a fire, mainly serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 黑 mean meanings related to “black” or “dirty” such as 墨, 黔, 點, 黛, 黝, 黜, etc. 黑 also can serve as a phonetic component. Continue reading “黑 soot in a container over a fire”
矛 a spear
矛 máo, a pictographic character of a spear, serves as both semantic and phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 矛 have to do with spears. Continue reading “矛 a spear”
亭 a pavilion
亭, a pictographic character of a pavilion, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Most of the characters formed by the phonetic component 亭 are in the left-right structure with 亭 on the right side. Continue reading “亭 a pavilion”
束 tied firewood
束, originally tied firewood/wood/timber, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. 束 is compound ideograph. Continue reading “束 tied firewood”