The Chinese Radical: 卵


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egg, ovum    卵

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
to chat, to depend upon (literary), temporarily, just, slightly
liáo
Left: ear , right: year of the rabbit [Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers] or egg (but here: a rabbit with dots as ears)
Whether the ear of a rabbit corresponds to an egg, is what we chatted about temporarily.
JLPT HSK 6
to lift, raise one's head, soaring, expensive
áng
Top: sun , bottom: ([at the left] an odd person bowing down deeply [at the right])
Looking at the sun, the bowed person has: raised. (Or: In sunshine the one-legged rabbit will raise the head.)
JLPT HSK 6
to admire, to face upward, to look up, to rely on
yǎng
Left: person , right: ([at the left] an odd person bowing down deeply [at the right])
The person is odd but bows down deeply, because he: admires.
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.
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.
JLPT no HSK
willow (tree)
liǔ
Left: tree , right: rabbit (Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers) or variation of egg (= pictograph of fish roe)
The tree with the 'eggs' (= pussy willow catkin) is a willow.
JLPT no HSK
breeding, to incubate, to hatch

Left: egg , right: trust (To the hand reaching down , the child is trusting) [cf. milk, breast 乳]
The egg needs to be entrusted to sb. for: breeding.
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.
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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