The Chinese Radical: 亠


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Meaning
lid    亠

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
capital city of a country
jīng

A stone lantern as a symbol for the capital.
JLPT HSK 1
brain, mind, head, essence
nǎo
Left: bodypart /, right: "trash can" (cover and fierce = container with dreadful inside)
The body part that is in a covered container is: the brain.
JLPT HSK 1
to shine, bright, clear, brilliant, resonant
liàng
Top: variant of high (guard tower with two floors), bottom: table
(Watchtowers were also used on the Chinese Wall for signal fires:) A watchtower on an elevated position (like on a 'table'), gives it shine and brightness.
JLPT HSK 3
ask for, to beg, seek, look for, request
qiú
Top: cover (here: one and drop ), below: water
[I'm dying of thirst:] Just one drop of water, this is my: request!
JLPT HSK 3
market, city
shì
Top: a cover , below: fabric/cloth
You get covers and cloth in the city on the market.
JLPT HSK 4
to get angry, hate, enraged
nǎo
Left: feelings , right: trash can (cover and grim [container with dreadful content])
Feelings for the trash can are: anger and hate.
JLPT HSK 4
cream, balm, ointment, paste
gāo
Top: high (actually a guard tower, but here: a cover/lid and three layers ,, of the skin), bottom: part of body /
It's a cover for the three layers of the body's skin: the cream or balm.
JLPT HSK 5
to break into pieces, fragmentary
suì
Left: stone (At the cliff is a stone ), right: soldier, suddenly (Between rotary discs , are soldiers who die suddenly)
Stones between two rotary discs are broken into pieces.
JLPT HSK 5
to give birth, to produce, estate
chǎn
Combination of: standing and factory (when used as radical understood as: 'cliff')
If something is standing on the cliff, it was produced (or born).
JLPT HSK 5
rate, ratio, frequency, to lead, usually
lǜ, shuài
From top: rotary disc , thread (cf. mysterious ), four small items , rotary disc
Two rotary turn threads into smaller items in a certain ratio.
JLPT HSK 5
to be drunk, intoxicated
zuì
Left: alcohol , right: soldier, suddenly (Between rotary discs , are soldiers who die suddenly.)
The alcohol lets you be as if between two rotary disks, when you are drunk.
JLPT HSK 5
night

At top a cover/roof (of a building), below a person / and a variant of moon
On the roof is a person watching the moon during the night.
JLPT HSK 6
to tremble, to shiver, to shake, to vibrate
zhàn, chàn
Left: 亶 (cover , rotate , sun rise ), right: page, (fore)head 页 (= head with shoulders and eyebrows )
If under the cover all is rotating at sun rise in your head, you tremble and shiver.
JLPT HSK 6
compassionate, gentle, kind, humane

Top: now/here (2x mysterious [turning disc , var. of thread ] or variation of magnet 磁 [= the mysterious stone]), below: heart
Like a magnet is his heart: so compassionate.
JLPT HSK 6
to groan, to snort, to hum, to croon, humph!
hēng
Left: mouth , right: prosperous (Who makes big/high things to accomplish is prosperous.) [ = The still arm-less child should be completed.]
Out of the mouth below the nose , this mouth , comes out a groan.
JLPT HSK 6
to die, deceased, to lose, to flee
wáng
(Originally: left:. corner , in this corner character for "person" , which changed to "lid" )
Coffin seen in a cross-sectional view as symbol for dying.
JLPT HSK 6
also, namely, likewise, that is

Variation of red (When earth (clay) is burned , the pottery becomes red.)
To consider this variation as red , is what you also can do.
JLPT HSK 6
without authority, to usurp, to monopolize, to be good at
shàn
Left: hand , right: 亶 (cover , rotate , sun rise )
(A rotatable blind [= jalousie] at the window) The hand that turns the cover, before the sunrise, does this: unauthorized.
JLPT no HSK
size of fields, (one fifteenth of a hectare)

Top: cover , bottom: field
Only as big as a lid: this field size.
JLPT no HSK
to make a report (to a superior), petition, to give
bǐng
From top: cover , return, revolve , to show /礻
It is still covered (= confidential), but at the return I show: the report.
JLPT no HSK
freezing, shiver with cold or fear, strict, afraid, stern
lǐn
Left: ice , right: report, petition 禀 (It is covered (= confidential) and at my return I show : the report.)
At the ice-cold report I shivered of fear.
JLPT no HSK
pig, boar of the 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m.
hài

Variation of pig and shows head , fat body and small tail .
JLPT no HSK
overbearing, excessive
kàng
The sturdy navigator known from navigation 航 with a broad neck and wearing a cap.
The navigator is overbearing.
JLPT no HSK
soldier, servant, abrupt, sudden, to finish, to die
cù, zú
From top: rotary disc , two persons , rotary disc
Between two rotary discs persons are squeezed who are soldiers, who die suddenly.
JLPT no HSK
harmony
yōng
Top: cover , bottom: country, native place 乡 (here two noses ), bird
Under a cover two noses' birds live: in harmony.
JLPT no HSK
sandalwood, hardwood
tán
Left: tree , right: 亶 (cover , rotate , sun rise )
The tree that grows in the shade (=covered) all around at sunrise: is the sandalwood.
JLPT no HSK
prosperous, flourish
hēng
Top: vari. of high , bottom: perfect suffix for accomplishing (The still arm-less child should be completed.)
Who makes big/high things to accomplish is prosperous.
JLPT no HSK
disrespectful, obscene, licentious
xiè
Top und down: cloth 衤(), middle: grasp, seize (If you get your hand to that small bead you grasp it.)
Grasping someone's clothes [i.e. by hand at a button ] is disrespectful.
JLPT no HSK
to accuse of misconduct, impeach

Left: (zodiac) pig (head , fat body small tail , cf. 豚), right: strength
You need a pig's strength to accuse sb. for that crime.

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