The Chinese Radical: 廾


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Meaning
two hands    廾

Explanation Twice this hand (with the fingers towards the top) side by side, which was simplified and combined.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to open, to start, to turn on
kāi

Shows an open gate with a double cross-bar, as it is common at the entrance of buddhist temples and means: "open".  
JLPT HSK 3
to calculate, to compute, regard as, to figure
suàn
From top: bamboo , the image of an abacus [= counting board], and two hands (twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined)
I use the bamboo abacus with both hands to calculate.  
JLPT HSK 4
to juggle, play with, lane, alley, to fool with
lòng, nòng
Top: king (here: four sticks: 三,), bottom: two hands (twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined.)
With four sticks in the hands he is juggling, or playing in the alley.  
JLPT HSK 5
warning, guard against, to exhort, to admonish
jiè
Left: two hands (= twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined), right: halberd
Two hands are holding up a halberd to warn and admonish.  
JLPT HSK 5
to spout, to spray, to spurt, to puff
pēn, pèn
Left: mouth , right: 贲 (grasses/thirty , money )
The mouth spouts 30x money.  
JLPT HSK 5
ascend, to raise, metric liter
shēng
Two hands where the left hand is holding a bottle with one liter. [Two hands = twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined]
(You should drink a lot when climbing:) Take the bottle in both hands on the ascent.  
JLPT HSK 6
to hurry, rush, to run quickly, elope, towards
bēn, bèn
Top: big , bottom: thirty, grasses (=ten , twenty )
The big man hurries thirty-fold away.  
JLPT HSK 6
carriage, sedan chair, public/world

Outside: mortar (= two hands E,ヨ pressing from the sides), inside: vehicle /車, below: two hands (= twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined)
The vehicle that requires four hands is the sedan chair.  
JLPT HSK 6
harm, defeat, detriment, fraud

Top: shabby, (modest) I, myself (The cloth is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and then as shabby as I am.), below: two hands (twice this hand next to each-other and combined)
The four shabby pieces of cloth were striked by two hands and (now) are harmed.  
JLPT HSK 6
different, other, unusual, separate

(simplified from: ) Top: year of snake 巳 (here: self = Following the winding path I find myself.), bottom: two hands (= twice this hand next to each-other and combined)
The "self" of my two hands is different.  
JLPT HSK 6
machine, appliance, tool, gear, mechanical
xiè
Left: tree , right: admonish/warning (two hands holding a halberd to admonish)
If you use wood and your hands to make a halberd, you need: a machine.  
JLPT HSK 6
anger, furious, resentment, indignant
fèn
Left: feeling , right: 贲 (grasses or thirty and money )
The feeling of paying thirty-fold money for these grasses is anger and indignation.  
JLPT HSK 6
commandment, to admonish, prohibit
jiè
Left: word /, right: to warn (Two hands are holding a halberd to warn) [hands = twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined]
Words to warn as a commandment.  
JLPT HSK 6
paralysis, numbness

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), right: 畀 (Rice field , two hands without the upper parts)
The disease, when at the field's work the hands are (almost) missing: The paralysis.  
JLPT no HSK
to reject, to disregard
pàn, pīn
Left: hand , right: 弁 (nose , two hands )
The hand is used to cover the nose with the hands and this means: rejection.  
JLPT no HSK
plants, grass
huì
3
Top: ten , bottom: twenty (also understood as two hands ,)
Like a meadow this stands thirty-fold for plants and grasses.  
JLPT no HSK
govern, normal nature of man, laws and rules

From top: Part of spoool 互, rice , thread , two hands
When you (wrap) on a spool some rice grains using a thread and both hands, you 'govern'.  

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