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The Radical: 隶
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Hanzi-Trainer
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Meaning |
stirring soup 隶
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Explanation |
The official meaning is "slave" but better usable as a hand stirring water (=soup) (The characters 肃 and 隶 are assigned to this radical.) |
Used in these Kanji:
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康
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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healthy, peaceful, abundant
kāng Left/top: building 广, below: a hand with a spoon 丨 stirs a liquid 水
In a building a hand stirs a soup that is healthy.
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广
隶
尹
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肃
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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respectful, solemn, to eliminate, clean up
sù Variation of to write 聿 (hand with pen 丨 writes two lines 二) - Consider the difference to: servant 隶
When drawing four lines vertically, you might be very respectful?
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聿
隶
尹
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隶
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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attached to, slave, servant, scribe
lì Hand with ladle 丨 stirring a suop 水
The hand that is stirring the soup is that of the servant.
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隶
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逮
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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arrest, catch, seize, until
dǎi, dài Left: movement 辶, right: servant 隶 (Hand , and an animal [e.g. cat] with a tail 丨 and four extremities/limbs spreading away from the body)
The hand seizes the tail of that animal in one movement, when it has caught it. (and the animal will hiss 啸)
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辶
隶
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啸
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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to hiss, to whistle
xiào Left: mouth 口, right: respectful 肃 (here: hand grapping the tail 丨 of a four legged 灬 animal.)
The mouth's sounded (when he seized the animal's tail) a hiss. (when it was caught 逮)
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口
隶
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慷
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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vehement, fervent, generous, giving, magnanimous
kāng (Left: feelings 忄, right: health 康 (In a building 广 a hand with a spoon 丨 stirs a soup 水 that is healthy.)
Feelings are healthy, if they are vehement and giving.
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忄
隶
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潇
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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deep & clear water, confident and at ease
xiāo Left: water 氵, right: mugwort 萧 (grass, plant 艹, respectful 肃 (hand writing four lines), here: Hand with stick 丨, stirring sth.)
(The broth is thin:) The water with a few grasses, which the hand stirs, appears deep and clear.
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氵
艹
隶
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萧
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JLPT no HSK |
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miserable, desolate, dreary, Chinese mugwort
xiāo Top: plant 艹, bottom: respectful 肃 (here: hand with spoon 丨 stiring a "soup")
The plant for making a "soup", is the medicine mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), used when you feel miserable.
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艹
隶
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箫
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JLPT no HSK |
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Xiāo, chinese long-flute
xiāo Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: respectful, solemn 肃
Made of bamboo is the flute 丨 in the hand with four holes 灬, the: Xiāo.
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竹
隶
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