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human, person, people ren2 Note similarity mouth, opening kou3 Note similarity with acters, and means enclosure. earth tu3 Note similarity with , which d shorter bottom one, and means scholar. woman, female nv3 !"# $ % % &' heart xin1 ()*+, %-&.'%/-%0 0 1' hand shou3 23456 0-1.'7-8 8 sun, day ri4 9:; > moon, month yue4 ?@AB; This radical is actuallin modern Chinese, they look the same in most casesD > E E tree mu4 FGHIJ Note similarity with K, which L L M'N water shui3 OPQRS Note similarity with T, which X X Y fire huo3 Z[\]^ X-X.'_`/-Y a silk (mi4) b -.'cd e grass cao3 fghij Note that when the radical is os four strokes. i-. k speech yan2 k-.l l walk (chuo4) mnop qr-. s gold, metal jin1 s-.t t u knife, sword dao1 vwxyz Note similarity with {| | roof (mian2) }~ Note similarity with , which means lid.

shell bei4 Note similarity with , which one yi1 : { { power, force li4 { Note similarity with u right hand you4 dog (quan3) Note similarity with , which K K grain (he) y Note similarity with E, which bamboo zhu2 $-. insect chong2 c Even though this radical means y organisms which aren't insects according to our taxonomy. left mound, dam (fu4) Note that there are twoook like this. On the left, it means mound, dam, and on the right, it means city. u-u. big, very da4 -.

house on cliff guang3 Note similarity with thout the house). field tian2 b eye mu4 7G Note that the horizontal versio stone shi2 clothes yi1 x Note similarity with , which foot zu2 horse ma3 leaf ye4 turban, scarf (jin1) rice mi3 cart, vehicle che1 eight ba1 v Note similarity with , which

corpse shi1 Note similarity with , which thumb, inch cun4 mountain shan1 -. knock, tap (pu1) Note similarity with (small) step (chi2) Note similarity with ten shi2 CUV -.W W work gong1 W square, raft fang1 gate men2

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eat, food shi2 lack, yawn qian4 human, legs er2 _ Note similarity with and with which means eight. /T T ice bing1 `M$ $ child, seed zi3 $ sickness (ne4) (short-tailed) bird (zhui1) axe (jin1) p lid (tou2) Note similarity with |, which means rcover. ` jade, king yu4, wang2 This radical isks like , king, and is probably more easily remembered like that. 9 9 white bai2 Note similarity with 8, which d d stand, erect li4 d ' sheep yang2 R stopping (gen4) H cover (mi4) cliff (han4) Note similarity with , which ). dish (min3) / sign, spirit, show shi4 Note similarity cave xue4 q q run, walk zou3 q

rain yu3 enclosure (wei2) Note similarity with er components and means mouth. small xiao3 -. halberd (ge1) table ji1 tongue she2 dry gan1 weapon (shu1) evening, sunset xi1 stop zhi3 ' cow niu2 -. skin pi2

ear er3 bitter xin1 right right city (yi4) Note that there are two radicalthis. On the left, it means mound, dam, and on the right, it means city. u wine (you3) A A green/blue qing1 A bird niao3 bow gong1 private si1 door, house hu4 Note similarity with feather yu3 boat chuan2 village, mile li3

spoon (bi3) go (slowly) (sui1) Note similarity with ap. see jian4 Note similarity with , which seal (jie2) u net wang3 Note that the horizontal versio scholar shi4 Note similarity with , which embrace, wrap (bao1)