The Chinese Radical: 贵


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Meaning
precious, expensive    贵

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
precious, expensive, noble, your (name)
guì
Top: simplification of blooming flower with two blossoms ロ at a stem growing from the ground , bottom: currency/shell /貝 (= cone-shell with two feelers = shell money)
Blooming flowers and money are precious.
JLPT HSK 6
be dispersed, break down, to fester/ulcerate
kuì
Left: water , right: precious, expensive (A blooming flower [simplf. from ] and money are precious)
Even water, which is that precious is dispersing (=evaporating) AND: Water is precious with: an ulcer/abscess.
JLPT HSK 6
to make a present, offering to the god
kuì
Left: eat 饣/, right: precious, expensive (A blooming flower [simplf. from ] and money are precious)
Food, that is precious is offered as: a present (or offering).
JLPT no HSK
deficiency, to lack, empty, exhausted
kuì
Left: frame , right: precious, expensive (A blooming flower [simplified from ] and money are precious.)
If the frame for the precious things is open at the right, it is a deficiency. [..that needs to be corrected ]

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