The Chinese Radical: 爫


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Meaning
reaching downwards    爫

Explanation Shows a hand reaching downwards to pluck sth.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to love, affection, to be fond of, to like
ài
From top: hand reaching down , cover friend (They shake hands , because they are friends.)
When I reach down though a cover to a friend, then because of love. (Or: To receive a hand from sb., due to: love.)
JLPT HSK 1
vegetable
cài
Top: plant , below: to pluck (A hand plucks from above at a tree .)
Plants you can pluck from above from a 'tree', are the vegetables.
JLPT HSK 4
to instruct, teach, award, to give
shòu
Left: hand , right: receive (A hand from above holds a cover , the other hand receives it.)
With the hand, to receive sth. This is an instruction.
JLPT HSK 4
commander-in-chief (mil.), will, shall
jiāng, jiàng
Left: bed (pictograph of a tree cut into half, cf. ), right: hand reaching down , skillful hand
A simple bed, a hand reaching down and a skillful hand: This is what makes a commander.
JLPT HSK 4
to receive, to accept, to suffer (passive marker)
shòu
From top: a hand reaching down , cover , hand
One hand from above holds a cover, the other hand receives it.
JLPT HSK 4
colorful, colored, tint
cǎi
Left: to pluck (hand plucks from above into a tree ), right: hair (here: tree flowers)
You pluck (i.e. on a meadow) three flowers, which are colorful.
JLPT HSK 4
to warm, to heat
nuǎn
Left: sun , right: to help (a hand reaches down to give a rope [with two knots] and another hand takes this help.)
The sun helps to warm up.
JLPT HSK 5
to pluck, to pick, to collect, select
cǎi, cài
Top: hand reaching down , bottom: tree
A hand is reaching downwards into a tree to pluck sth.
JLPT HSK 5
to shake, rock, wag, swing
yáo
Left: hand , right: hand reaching down , below: can, jar (lid and can opener of that can )
The hand reaches downwards to the can, to shake it.
JLPT HSK 5
relaxed, unhurried, sluggish, to defer
huǎn
Left: thread 纟/, right: to help (a hand reaches down to give a rope [with two knots] and another hand takes this help.)
If you have a thread (a rope?) for helping you can be relaxed.
JLPT HSK 5
to step on, to tread, to stamp, to press a pedal
cǎi
Left: foot (knee cap and footprint ), right: to pluck (hand plucks from above into a tree )
The "plucking with the foot" means to: tread on it.
JLPT HSK 6
breast, milk

Left: trust (To the hand reaching down , the child is trusting.), right: kneeling person
To reach down to the child, when you yourself are kneeing: You give breast and milk.
JLPT HSK 6
suitable, adequate, ready, settled
tuǒ
Top: hand reaching down , below: woman
The hands reaching down (= caring) of the women settle the suitable adequately.
JLPT HSK 6
to float, unstable, superficial, excessive

Left: water , right: trust (To the hand reaching down , the child is trusting.)
Into the water, a hand reaches down for a child that is floating.
JLPT HSK 6
to take prisoner, prisoner of war

Left: person , right: entrust (To the hand reaching down , the child is trusting.)
A person who trusts can (easily be) taken as prisoner.
JLPT HSK 6
to twinkle, wink, a moment
shùn
Left: eye , right: Emperor Shun 舜 (hand reaching down , cover , two var. of foot / (opposite feet, originally a pictograph, like at: to dance 舞)
The eye sees a hand covering two unequal feet and twinkles for a moment.
JLPT HSK 6
to help, to assist, aid
yuán
Left: hand , right: to help (a hand reaches down to give a rope [with two knots] and another hand takes this help.)
A hand helps to help.
JLPT HSK 6
rivulet =small river, creek

Left: water , right: What? WHERE? 奚 (The down-reaching hand wants to fish with the thread something big , but: What? Where?)
To get to the water, you need to reach down and it seems like a 'big thread', then it is a rivulet.
JLPT HSK 6
rice (Oraza sativa), paddy
dào
Left: rice plant , right: (hand reaching down , mortar )
It comes from the rice plant and the hand puts it (for processing) into the mortar: The rice.
JLPT HSK 6
rumor, popular ballad, legend
yáo
Left: word /, right: hand reaching down , can (= lid and can opener of that can )
Words you pick out of a can are: rumors or ballads.
JLPT HSK 6
to tread on, to trample, dance, to stamp, to fulfill
dǎo
Left: foot (knee cap and footprint ), right: (hand reaching down , mortar )
(At the grape-stomping) With the feet from above into the mortar: to tread in.
JLPT HSK 6
to chew
jiáo, jué
Left: mouth , right: nobility 爵 (A hand takes the plates 罒(=) to serve food skillfully to the nobility.)
Also the mouths of the nobility chew.
JLPT HSK 6
distant, remote, far, far away
yáo
Left: movement , right: 䍃 (hand from above , can (lid and can opener of that can )
If it takes a movement to get from above to the can, it is distant.
JLPT HSK 6
seek, to look for, search

Top: hand reaching down , bottom: to see /見 (an eye on legs )
If the hand reaching down wants to "see" (= feel, grope) something, it: seeks.
JLPT HSK 6
take notice of, pay attention, heed
cǎi
Left: eye , right: to pluck (A hand plucks from above into a tree .)
The eye "plucks", when: taking notice of sth.
JLPT no HSK
nobility, duke, baron, lord
jué
Top: hand reaching down , net/eye 罒 (here: plate ), below: var of food , skillful hand
A hand reaches down to the plates to serve food skillfully to the nobility.
JLPT no HSK
to pacify, soothe, to appease
suí
Left: thread 纟/, right: to settle sth. adequately 妥 (The hands of the women settle the suitable)
(When taming animals) Threads settle adequately the: pacifying.
JLPT no HSK
precious stone, jade, nacre, precious
yáo
Left: king, jade , right: 䍃 (hand reaching down , can (lid and can opener of that can )
The 'jade', the hand gets out of the can, is a precious stone.
JLPT no HSK
lewdness, wanton, lascivious, obscene, depraved
yín
Left: water , right: hand reaching down ; bundle, burden (spindle for winding up threads)
Water cools down and a hand imposes a burden against lewdness.
JLPT no HSK
Shun (c. 22nd century BC), fifth of the Five Emperors
shùn
From top: hand grasping down , cover , oppose (opposed feet, like at: dancing 舞)
With a downward hand he covered/protected, but was opposed and thus the last of the five emperors.
JLPT no HSK
what?, where?, why?

From top: a hand reaching down , thread 纟, big
The down-reaching hand wants to fish with the thread something big , but: What?, Where?
JLPT no HSK
to trust, to believe in

Top: hand reaching down , bottom: child
A hand reaching down is what a child can trust in.

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