The Chinese Radical: 畜


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Meaning
cattle breeding    畜

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 6
to store up, to grow (eg. a beard)

Top: plant 艹, bottom: cattle breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 is used for cattle breeding [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = 玄 = thread 糸 with mysterious stone = magnet 磁]
Plants for cattle breeding have to be grown & stored.
HSK 6
cattle breeding, livestock, to raise (animals)
chù, xù
Top: mysterious, occult 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄/糸 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious), bottom: field 田
(It is not sufficiently fertile for grain-crops:) The mysterious field is used for cattle breeding.
no HSK
cramp, spasm, convulsion, twitch
chù
Left: hand 扌, right: cattle breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 (= not fertile) is used for cattle) - [mysterious = 玄 = thread 糸 with mysterious stone = magnet 磁]
When the hand contracts mysteriously to a fist 田, it is: a cramp.

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