月, originally flesh, serves as semantic or phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component flesh 月 express things related to organs, limbs, veins, muscles, parts of the body, etc. Continue reading “Component flesh 月”
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Component heart 心忄
心, originally heart, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component heart 心 or 忄express things related to feelings, temperament, thought, expression, or things related to mental activity. It can also act as phonetic component. Continue reading “Component heart 心忄”
Component mouth 口
口, a pictographic character of mouth, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component mouth 口express things related to mouth, language, actions of mouth, or square things. 口 also can act as phonetic component. Continue reading “Component mouth 口”
Component foot 足
足, a compound ideographic character of a foot, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 足 express meanings related to the foot, foot movements, foot actions, etc. 足 also serves as phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component foot 足”
寸 hand III
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”