The Chinese Radical: マ


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Meaning
bent person    マ

Explanation (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂,lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)

Used in these characters:
HSK 4
brave, courage, righteous
yǒng
Top: 甬 (bent person マ, use 用), below: force 力, better bottom: man 男 (In the rice field 田 is the strength 力 male.)
If the bent person マ is a (real) man, then it's because he is brave.  
HSK 4
to doubt, to misbelieve, to suspect

Left: sitting person 匕, arrow 矢; right: bent person マ, correct 正
The sitting person with the arrow and the bent person are right with their doubt.  
HSK 5
pain, ache, sorrow, deeply, thoroughly
tòng
Top: sick 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), below: 甬 (bent person マ, use 用 [= A fence 用 can be used])
The disease that a bent person has (when climbing) over a fence, is: pain.  
HSK 5
to order, to command, warrant
lìng
Top: lid , below: bent person 卩
A lid on the bent person: That's the order.  
HSK 5
(small) bell
líng
Left: metal 钅/金, right: order/command 令 (bell's body , bell's bolt マ)
Metal chiming on command is a bell.  

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