The Chinese Radical: 隶


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stirring soup    隶

Explanation The official meaning is "slave" but better usable as a hand stirring water (=soup)

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
healthy, peaceful, abundant
kāng
广
Left/top: building 广, below: a hand with a spoon stirs a liquid
In a building a hand stirs a soup that is healthy.
JLPT HSK 5
respectful, solemn, to eliminate, clean up

Variation of to write (hand with pen writes two lines ) - Consider the difference to: servant
When drawing four lines vertically, you might be very respectful?
JLPT HSK 6
attached to, slave, servant, scribe

Hand with ladle stirring a suop
The hand that is stirring the soup is that of the servant.
JLPT HSK 6
arrest, catch, seize, until
dǎi, dài
Left: movement , right: servant (Hand , and an animal [e.g. cat] with a tail and four extremities/limbs spreading away from the body)
The hand seizes the tail of that animal in one movement, when it has caught it. (and the animal will hiss 啸)
JLPT HSK 6
to hiss, to whistle
xiào
Left: mouth , right: respectful 肃 (here: hand grapping the tail of a four legged animal.)
The mouth's sounded (when he seized the animal's tail) a hiss. (when it was caught 逮)
JLPT HSK 6
vehement, fervent, generous, giving, magnanimous
kāng
(Left: feelings , right: health 康 (In a building 广 a hand with a spoon stirs a soup that is healthy.)
Feelings are healthy, if they are vehement and giving.
JLPT HSK 6
deep & clear water, confident and at ease
xiāo
Left: water , right: mugwort 萧 (grass, plant , respectful 肃 (hand writing four lines), here: Hand with stick , stirring sth.)
(The broth is thin:) The water with a few grasses, which the hand stirs, appears deep and clear.
JLPT no HSK
miserable, desolate, dreary, Chinese mugwort
xiāo
Top: plant , bottom: respectful 肃 (here: hand with spoon stiring a "soup")
The plant for making a "soup", is the medicine mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), used when you feel miserable.
JLPT no HSK
Xiāo, chinese long-flute
xiāo
Top: bamboo , bottom: respectful, solemn 肃
Made of bamboo is the flute in the hand with four holes , the: Xiāo.

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