The Chinese Radical: 豆


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Meaning
bean    豆

Explanation shows eating / sacrificial vessel with a high round base, and is also interpreted as a drum.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to be happy, to like, to enjoy, glad

From top: scholar , beans , mouth . (This character has also been simplified to )
A scholar with beans in his mouth is happy.
JLPT HSK 3
short or brief, to lack, weak point, fault
duǎn
Left: arrow (= An arrow in the sky ), right: bean
An arrow of the size of a bean is very short.
JLPT HSK 4
to ascend, to mount, to step on, publish
dēng
Top: volcano , bottom: beans
The volcano spits beans: let's ascend it!
JLPT HSK 4
drum, to rouse, to beat, convex

Left: (twig over bean [here: image of a drum on a stand]), right: twig, support (With a twig in the hand , I am supporting)
With a twig over the drums and another in the hand, he beats the drums.
JLPT HSK 4
kitchen
chú
Left: cliff (here: kitchen table), inside: bean , skillful hand
The kitchen table, at which beans are processed with skillful hands, is in: the kitchen.
JLPT HSK 5
bean, peas, sacrificial vessel
dòu
Top: one , below: vessel on a stand
A vessel full of beans.
JLPT HSK 5
excellent, auspicious
jiā
Top: drum (twig over a bean [here: image of a drum on a stand]), bottom: 'to add' (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat])
If a drum is added, it will be excellent.
JLPT HSK 5
to tease (play with), to stay, to pause
dòu
Left: movement , right: bean
"His movements are like that of a bean", that's how you can tease.
JLPT HSK 6
to stare at, to open (one's eyes) wide, to glare at
dèng
Left: eye , right: climb, ascend (The volcano spits beans : let's ascend it)
The eyes wide open like a vulcano spitting beans, when he stares at me.
JLPT HSK 6
clear, limpid, to purify, settle (liquid)
chéng, dèng
Left: water , right: climb, ascend (The volcano spits beans : let's ascend it.)
(In dirty water, the dirt settles down, the clear part rises up:) When water is climbing, it becomes clear.
JLPT HSK 6
to tread on, to pedal, to step on
dēng, dèng
Left: foot (knee cap and footprint ), right: to climb, ascend (The volcano spits beans : let's ascend it)
On foot you climb: Tread by tread.
JLPT HSK 6
orange tree, orange (color)
chéng
Left: tree , right: to climb, ascend (The volcano spits beans : let's ascend it.)
The tree, you climb, is the: orange tree.
JLPT no HSK
bench, stool
dèng
Top: climb, ascend (The volcano spits beans : let's ascend it), bottom: table
(Particularly small children) can climb up this "table": a bench!
JLPT no HSK
virtuous, admirable, esteemed, restrain

Top variation of: be happy, enjoy (A scholar with beans in his mouth is happy.), right: lack , heart
Who is happy without a lack of heart, is: virtuous.
JLPT no HSK
wardrobe, closet, cabinet
chú
Left: tree , right: kitchen 厨 (The kitchen table , at which beans are processed with skillful hands , is in the kitchen.)
Its made of wood and is in the kitchen: the wardrobe.
JLPT no HSK
to choke (on), to choke up, suffocate

Left: mouth , right: one (anti-fraud) 壹 (scholar , cover & Bohne )
If something is in the mouth and covers with wide arms (= ) like a bean, you have to choke.
JLPT no HSK
surname Peng
péng
Left: drum (twig over bean/drum ), right: three hairs
The one at the drum with the three sticks is: the 'Péng'.

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