The Chinese Radical: 廿


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Meaning
twenty    廿

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
epoch, generation, lifetime, age
shì
廿
Left: corner , right: twenty 廿
Go around the corner for twenty times and you are in a (different) epoch.
JLPT HSK 4
degree, measure, x-times, extent

广 廿
Outside: building 广, below: various objects 廿 (means actually: twenty), hand
In the house is an object with which the hand measures x-times the degrees.
JLPT HSK 5
animal hide, leather, to remove, to expel (from office)

廿
Center: peeled skin , rest: pictogram for a horned 廿 animal with backbone from above
Horned animals have a skin of leather.
JLPT HSK 5
banquet, woven mat, seat (in an assembly, theater)

广 廿
Outside: building 广, below: var. objects 廿, cloth
In the building, they use things of cloth: as seats.
JLPT HSK 6
to conceal, to cover up (a shortcoming), to screen off
zhē
广 廿
Left: movement , right: commonly, ordinary 庶 (A building 广 with various objects 廿 is in fire which commonly can happen.)
(In a magic trick you make inconspicuous movements) With an ordinary movement you can conceal/hide something.
JLPT no HSK
swallow (bird), Yan (state of Zhou)
yān, yàn
廿
From top: twenty 廿, north (2 people sit back-to-back because of the north's cold.), mouth , fire
In (groups of) twenty they come from the nord, because of the food (= mouth) and the temperature (=fire): the swallows
JLPT no HSK
common people (or populace), numerous
shù
广 廿
From top: building 广, various objects 廿, fire
A building with various objects on the fire, just like ordinary/common people do.
廿
JLPT no HSK
twenty, 20
niàn
廿
is twice this hand with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined.
Two hands with a duplification make 20.

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