The Radical: 卩


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Meaning
bent person    卩

Explanation shows a person bowing down deeply. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting sitting cross-legged , lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled , bending ,, slumped or husband )

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 1
clothes, dress, to take (medicine)

From left: body /, bent person , hand
The (naked) body bends down with the hand for the clothes.

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JLPT HSK 2
to announce, to inform, report, newspaper
bào
Left: hand , right: bent person and a further hand
About the bent person with two different hands was informed in an announcement.

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JLPT HSK 3
foot, leg, base
jiǎo, jué
Left: body part /, right: retreat (Leaving in a bowed position is a retreat.) [to leave = Below ground is the nose that has left.]
The body part for making a retreat [= the leaving in a bowed position] is: the foot.

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JLPT HSK 3
grandfather, grandpa, old gentleman

Top: father (.. has a stick in his hand ), bottom: bent person
This "father" is a bent person: The grandfather.

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JLPT HSK 4
to retreat, to go back, but, yet
què
Left: leave (Below ground is the nose , which has left.), right: bowing person
Leaving in a bowed position is a retreat.

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JLPT HSK 4
immediate, prompt, namely, to approach

Left: simplification of "not good" ('good' would be , but here the accent is missing, thus 'not good'), right: bent person
Not good, this person should bow down: Immediately!

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JLPT HSK 4
a stamp, to mark, engrave, seal
yìn
Left: hand press , right: bent person
Under that press the bent person is stamped.

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JLPT HSK 4
to guard, protect, defend, hygiene
wèi
Image of work/worker with a hanging arm
We can use the worker with the hanging arm only for: guarding.

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JLPT HSK 6
to govern, to manage, imperial, defend, resist

Left: go , right: unload (At noon (during that heat) we can stop and as we are bent , we can unload.)
I go at noon, stop and bow at the imperial, because I am governed.

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JLPT HSK 6
to unload, unhitch, remove or strip, get rid of
xiè
Left: noon , to stop , right: bowing person
At noon (during that heat) we can stop and as we are bent, we can unload.

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JLPT HSK 6
press down, restrain, restrict, suppress, or

Left: hand , right: ([at the left] an odd person bowing down deeply [at the right])
The hand that makes an 'odd' person to 'bow down deeply' is: repressing or restraining.

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JLPT no HSK
high ranking official (old), honorific (old)
qīng
Outside: rabbit (Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers), inside: not good ('good' would be , but here the accent is missing, thus 'not good')
'Rabbit' is not good as an official honorific term.

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JLPT no HSK
to knock, to kowtow
kòu
Left: mouth , right: bent person
The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of a bent person is a knocking. (e.g. with the walking stick on the ground)

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JLPT no HSK
egg, ovum, spawn
luǎn
Similar to: rabbit (Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers)
Pictograph of eggs of fish or frog, which are aligned in a row.

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JLPT no HSK
to splash, pump water, to whisper, to mutter

Left: mouth , right: immediate, prompt (Not good , this person should bow down, immediately!)
The mouth is not good, when during 'bowing down' sth. is: splashing out.

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JLPT no HSK
4th earthly branch: Rabbit, mortise (slot for wooden tenon)
mǎo

Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers.

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