The Chinese Radical:


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Meaning
3 beams   

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
learn, study, science
xué
From top: beam of light , cover 冖, child 子 (Image of a child with an outsized head 乛, a body 丿 and two outstretched arms 一 seeking help)
There is a crown above the child when it is busy in learning.  
JLPT HSK 1
a sleep, a nap, feel, find that, awake, aware
jiào, jué
From top: light rays , cover: 冖, to see 见/見 (= an eye 目 on legs 儿)
When the sunshine falls through the cover on your seeing eyes you awake: from sleep.  
JLPT HSK 1
to flourish, thrive, to become popular
xīng, xìng
Top: flowers , below: table (The table is often also: 几)
The flowers on the table are blooming and thriving.  
JLPT HSK 4
to lift, to raise, to hold up, enumerate, choose

Top: flourish 兴 (The flowers on the table flourish.), bottom: hand 扌(Here: Understand as an illumination of the table)
(The trick of a magician:) Light shines on the table, with a hand below, to lift it.  
JLPT HSK 6
to disturb, to annoy, to mix, to stir
jiǎo
Left: hand 扌, right: awake 觉 (When the light beams fall through the cover 冖 on your seeing 见/見 eyes 目 you awake from sleep)
A hand, that just awakes, disturbs.  

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