The Chinese Radical: 歹


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Meaning
bad, wicked    歹

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
row, to arrange, to line up, series
liè
Left: evil, bad (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: knife
(i.e. backbone) The bones are lain bare by knife: arranged in a row.
JLPT HSK 4
example, precedent, rule, instance

Left: person , right: row (A [back-]bone is exposed with a knife in a row.)
A person queuing in a line/row sets an example.
JLPT HSK 4
to die, impassable, inflexible

bad, wicked (= vertebrae or rib) and sitting person under the ground
If the bones of the sitting person are under the earth, this means: to die.
JLPT HSK 5
unique, special, extraordinary
shū
Left: bad, wicked [= bare bone, vertebrae or rib], right: vermilion (A branch of a young [=not yet] tree has sth. red =apple?)
Bare bones that are vermilion, are very unique.
JLPT HSK 5
burning fiercely, intense, ardent
liè
Top: row (wicked [bar bone] is exposed with a knife in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: fire
A row of fires burns fiercely.
JLPT HSK 6
to grow, to reproduce, increase
zhí
Left: bad, wicked (=bare bone, HERE: vari. of many ), right: immediately (Ten eyes watch the base line __ which is straight.)
Many things can immediately be grown & reproduced.
JLPT HSK 6
to destroy, to ruin, cruel, incomplete, to remain
cán
Left: bad, wicked [= bare bone], right: (two halberds )
Only bones and two halberds remained: at the destruction.
JLPT HSK 6
bad, wicked, evil
dǎi

The image of a bare bone , like vertebrae or rib, stands for bad or wicked.
JLPT HSK 6
calamity, disaster
yāng
Left: bad, wicked (vertebrae or rib), right: center (The yoke on the shoulders of the big man is centered.)
If the bad is in the center, it is a calamity.
JLPT no HSK
dangerous, perilous, endanger, almost, only
dài
Left: evil, bad (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: platform, rack (nose over the mouth )
If sth. evil like a bare bone is on the platform, it is dangerous.
JLPT no HSK
dutiful death, to die for a cause, martyrdom
xùn
Left: bare bone (rib or vertebrae), right: period of 10 days (When the sun is enwrapped (by clouds), then often for a duration of 10 days)
The bare bones will remain there for ten days after the dutiful death.
JLPT no HSK
to destroy, to annihilate
jiān
Left: bad, wicked (= bare bone), right: thousand
When there are bare bones in thousands, it is: a destruction.
JLPT no HSK
a funeral, to encoffin a corpse
bìn
Left: bad, evil (image of a bone), right: visitor, guest (Under your roof a soldier is billeted as your guest.)
Bones and visitors are: at a funeral.

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