The Chinese Radical: 戶


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door    戶

Explanation Image of a sliding door in an upper guidance rail.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
room, house
fáng
Top: door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), bottom: direction/square
Behind the door is a square: A room!
JLPT HSK 2
place, address, location, actually
suǒ
Left: (sliding) door 戸, right axe
Next to the door there is (always) the axe, (exactly) in this place, which is its "address".
JLPT HSK 3
sound, voice
shēng
Top: scholar , bottom: variant of door/gate 戸 (sliding dor with upper rail)
The scholar is at the door: I hear his voice.
JLPT HSK 3
to protect, guard, shield

Left: hand , right: door 戸/户 (image of a sliding door with an upper rail)
Like a hand, also a door can: protect.
JLPT HSK 4
a household, door, family

Also used as 戸
A sliding door with an upper guidance rail means: household.
JLPT HSK 4
classifier for written items, sheet or paper
piān
Top: bamboo , bottom: flat (Sliding oors 戸 and writing tablets are flat.)
When bamboo is flat (like a door plate), it is used for writing texts.
JLPT HSK 4
everywhere, all over, classifier for actions: one time
biàn
Left: movement , right: flat (door 戸 with writing tablet as: "door plate")
(They often hang on strings) Moveable door plates are everywhere.
JLPT HSK 5
to weave, plait, organize, compose
biān
Left: thread 纟/, right: flat (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets are flat.)
If threads are laid as flatly, as doors or tablets are, it is weaving, plaiting or composing.
JLPT HSK 5
to open, to start, to initiate, to awaken

Left: sliding door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), right: mouth (here: entrance)
The sliding door is the entrance, where it (= the inner) starts and opens.
JLPT HSK 5
shoulder, to shoulder (responsibilities)
jiān
Top: door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), below: body /
(As big as a) door is this part of the body: The shoulder.
JLPT HSK 5
fan, ventilator, with a hinge (door, window)
shān, shàn
Top: gate/door 戸, below: wings
Gates and wings are hinged like a fan.
JLPT HSK 6
employee, to hire, to rent

Top: door 戸, below: bird (Here: door of a shop, in which sb. is shouting for clients)
The one in the door (shouting) like a bird is an employee.
JLPT HSK 6
a furnace, a stove

Left: fire , right: door 戸
The fire (closed by) a door is a furnace.
JLPT HSK 6
biased, one-sided, prejudiced, inclined, slant
piān
Left: person , right: flat (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets are flat.)
(As if they had their fixed opinion on a sign around their neck:) People who are flat like a door plate are biased and one-sided.
JLPT HSK 6
to envy (success, talent), jealous

Left: woman , right: sliding door 戸
The woman (behind) the sliding door is full of envy.
JLPT HSK 6
flat, plan, small boat
biǎn
Left: sliding door 戸, right: writing tablet
Doors and writing tablets are flat.
JLPT no HSK
short name for Shanghai 上海

Left: water , right: sliding door 戸
At the water is this 'sliding door': The harbor-city: Shanghai
JLPT no HSK
leisure
xiá
Left: day , center: var. of door 戸 (with stairs ), right: tool コ/, hand
(DIY = Home improvement as a hobby:) The day when I repair door and stairs with a tool in my hand is my leisure time.
JLPT no HSK
hut, cottage

广
Left: building 广, right: sliding door 戸
A building with only a sliding door is: a small hut.
JLPT no HSK
reed, rush, hurry

Left: growing plant , right: sliding door 戸
The plant (for building) a sliding door is the reed, where you can then rush through.
JLPT no HSK
fan into a flame, incite
shān
Left: fire , right: fan, ventilator 扇 (Gates 戸 and wings are hinged like fans.)
At the fire you use a fan for inciting.
JLPT no HSK
donkey

Left: horse /馬, right: sliding door 戸 here: back/buttons with a load )
The 'horse' that is loaded, is: the donkey.
JLPT no HSK
the start, the origin, at first, devise, originate
zhào
Top: sliding door , strike 攵 (hand with a stick ), below: to write (hand with a pen writes two lines )
(The author of a novella) The sliding door is slammed. When he wrote it down, it was (from the story) the: Beginning.
JLPT no HSK
a board with an inscription, a sign above a door, a tablet
biǎn
Left: partical frame , inside: flat (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets are flat. Or: A door 戸 with a writing tablet as: "door plate")
A frame with a flat door plate is: a inscripted board.
JLPT no HSK
retinue, retainer, henchman

Left: sliding door 戸, right: village, city 邑 (as a radical typically and always at the right side of a character)
At the door is the (whole) village as: retinue.

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