The Chinese Radical: 圭


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Meaning
piled earth    圭

Explanation Two times earth on top of each other stands for piled-up earth. (Standing alone it has the meaning: jade sceptre)

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
road, street
jiē
Outside: to go , center: heap of soil (= 2x earth)
I am going on elevated/piled earth: on a road.
JLPT HSK 3
shoe
xié
Left: leather (Horned 廿 animals have a skin of leather.), right: 2x earth = piled earth (cf. with road/street 街, where you walk over piled earth )
The leather for the piled earth (= the street) is: the shoe!
JLPT HSK 4
to seal, letter(=sealed objects), to grant
fēng
Left: piled/cumulated earth (=2x earth ), right: skillful hand
(cf. street 街 [= I go over piled earth ] - Thus at road construction:) Earth is piled up by skillful hands and sealed.
JLPT HSK 4
to hang (from a hook), link (telephone), to be worried
guà
Left: hand , right: (2x earth )
The hand needs something elevated, like double piled earth, to hang something.
JLPT HSK 6
baby, doll, pretty girl

Left: woman , right: double earth
The woman brings behind the two heaps of earth the baby to the earth.
JLPT HSK 6
beautiful, fine, good
jiā
Left: person , right: = 2x earth as piled earth path cf. street 街)
The person strutting on the mounds of earth (= a street) is of excellent beauty.
JLPT HSK 6
precipice, cliff

Top: mountain , below: 厓 (cliff , heap of soil )
From the mountain down to the cliff and the soil: a steep precipice.
JLPT HSK 6
Wow!, sound of child's crying or of vomiting
wā, wa
Comprises: to vomit 吐 (From his mouth to the ground he disgorged his vomit) with an extra earth ) [Or: heaps of earth ]
To vomit on the ground sounds like crying or vomiting.
JLPT no HSK
laurel, cassia, abbr. for Guangxi 广西壮族自治区
guì
Left: tree , right: piled earth (= 2x earth )
The tree on the piled earth is the laurel.
JLPT no HSK
frog

Left: insect , right: piled earth (2x earth )
The "insect" at the field's ridge (= where earth is piled) is the frog.
JLPT no HSK
8th divinatory trigram
guà
Left: (twice earth , here: part of way/street 街, where you walk over piled earth.), right: fortune telling (crack in a turtle's shell used for divining, sometimes also: forking of a way)
About the way with a forking, there is the: divinatory trigram.
JLPT no HSK
coat, jacket, gown, ensheath
guà
Left: clothes 衤/, right: trigram 卦 (twice earth as fortune telling in trigram)
Clothes in fortune telling can ensheath as a coat.
JLPT no HSK
depression, sunken, swamp, hollow

Left: water , right: piled earth (twice earth )
Water (aggregates) within piled earth in: a depression.
JLPT no HSK
silicon (chemistry)
guī
Left: stone , right: piled earth
The stones in the piled earth are: silicon.
JLPT no HSK
lady's chamber, boudoir, small arched door
guī
Outside: gate /門, inside: piled earth (Together with person / this means: 'beautiful' 佳 (The person strutting on the mounded street 街 is beautiful 佳)
Behind the gate is for the 'beautiful', the: lady's chamber.
JLPT no HSK
border, horizon, shore

From left: water , 厓 (cliff , accumulated earth )
Water, a cliff or accumulated earth can (each) be a border.
JLPT no HSK
crotch, stride
kuí
Top: big (here: big person), bottom: piled earth
A big person is over the piled earth with one stride.
JLPT no HSK
jade tablet
guī

Twice earth on top of each other as the image of a tablet. The radical has the meaning: piled earth
JLPT no HSK
anger, rage
huì
Top: piled earth (2x earth ), bottom: heart
With twice earth in your heart you are: in anger.

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