The Chinese Radical: 执


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grasp, seize    执

Explanation If you get your hand to that small bead you grasp it.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
hot, heat, to warm up, fervent

Top: grasp, seize (If you get your hand to that small bead you grasp it.), bottom: fire [bead, pill = A 'nine' needs an additional stroke to become round like a pill/bead.]
If your hand holds a bead over the fire, it gets really hot.
JLPT HSK 5
grasp, seize, to hold in hand, receipt, to execute (a plan)
zhí
Left: hand /, right: small bead (A 'nine' needs an additional stroke to become round like a pill)
If you have a small bead in your hand, you hold it.
JLPT HSK 5
power, influence, potential, conditions, gesture
shì
Top: grasp, seize (If you get your hand to that small bead you grasp it) [bead, pill = A 'nine' needs an additional stroke to become round like a pill.], bottom: power
Grasping with power means power and influence.
JLPT HSK 6
mat, mattress, pad, cushion
diàn
Top: grasp, seize (If you get your hand to that small bead you grasp it.), bottom: earth
By hand the beads/pills (are spread) to form: a mattress.
JLPT HSK 6
sincere, cordial
zhì
Top: grasp, seize (If you get your hand to that small bead you grasp it.), bottom: hand
If you have graspted it with your (whole) hand, then it is sincere.
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.

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