The Chinese Radical:


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Meaning
corner   

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
epoch, generation, lifetime, age
shì
廿
Left: corner , right: twenty 廿
Go around the corner for twenty times and you are in a (different) epoch.
HSK 4
very, extraordinary, any
shén, shèn
Image of a grain shovel/scoop 其 (tool for threshing), bottom: angle
A grain shovel with an extra angle makes it very extraordinary.
HSK 4
severance, to decide, break, judgment, to cut off
duàn
From left: corner , rice 米, axe 斤
If the rice is in a corner , you can use the axe to decide whether to cut it.
HSK 4
to go on with, to continue, to succeed, to inherit, then

Left: thread 纟/糸, right: angle , rice 米
As long as a thread, we will manage with the rice in the corner to go on with.

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