The Chinese Radical: 丰


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Meaning
growing plant    丰

Explanation Shows a growing plant 丨 with three 三 branches. When a leaf ノ is added, it becomes life 生.

Used in these characters:
生
JLPT HSK 1
life, to be born, to grow, raw/uncooked
shēng
生 丰 ノ
Accent/emphasis ノ (here: a twig) at a growing plant /丰 [cf. abundant 丰]
The twig at the growing plant stands for life.  
年
JLPT HSK 1
year
nián
ノ 丰 干
Comprises the trunk 丨 of a tree with three 三 branches, which is understood as a growing plant /丰. Additionally with two accents ノ,丨 which are understood as fruits.
When the growing plants bear fruit, it has passed: another year.  
表
JLPT HSK 2
exterior surface, outside, to show (one's opinion)
biǎo
丰 衣
Top: growing plant , below: clothes 衣
Growing plants and clothes show at the surface.  
情
JLPT HSK 2
passion, emotion, feeling, situation
qíng
忄 丰 青
Left: feeling 忄, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.) Churchill: “If a man is not a socialist with 20 years, he has no heart. If he is still a socialist with 40, he has no brain”
The feeling of the youth is passion.  
帮
JLPT HSK 2
to help, to assist, to support, side (of boat etc)
bāng
邦 丰 ⻏ 巾
Top: country/nation 邦 (= abundance 丰 in the villages⻏) [abundance 丰 = flourishing plant], bottom: cloth 巾
If there is abundance in the villages you can give cloth as a help.  
睛
JLPT HSK 2
eye, eyeball
jīng
目 青 丰
Left: eye 目, right: young, green/blue 青 (Growing plants /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
It is in the eye and can be green/blue: the eyeball.  
晴
JLPT HSK 2
clear, fine (weather)
qíng
日 青 丰
Left: day/sun 日, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
Sunny and blue (sky) - It's sunny and the weather's cleared up.  
害
JLPT HSK 3
to damage, to cause trouble to, calamity
hài
害 宀 丰
From top: roof 宀, growing plant 丰 [cf. abundant 丰], pot 口
Under the roof (of the house) is a growing potted plant, which caused a damage.  
清
JLPT HSK 3
clear, pure, to clean up, purge
qīng
氵 青 丰
Left: water 氵, right: blue, young 青 (Growing plants /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
Water that is blue (or young) is clear and pure.  
静
JLPT HSK 3
calm, quiet, not moving
jìng
青 争 丰 尹
Left: blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.), right: dispute/fight 争 (The bent person ⺈ with a stick 亅 in the hand is looking for dispute)
A "young" dispute is still calm and quiet.  
绩
JLPT HSK 3
merit, accomplishment
jī
糸 责 丰
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: responsibility 责 (... for growing plants and money 贝/貝)
Threads have the responsibility (i.e. in woven form) to provide a merit.  
责
JLPT HSK 4
responsibility, duty, to reproach, to blame
zé
责 丰 贝
Top: growing plant /丰, below: shell/money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money)
Growing plants and money mean responsibility.  
性
JLPT HSK 4
personality, nature, character, sexuality, gender
xìng
忄 丰 生
Left: feeling 忄, right: life/birth 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant stands for life.)
The feelings at your birth determine your personality.  
丰
JLPT HSK 4
abundant, plentiful, great, buxom
fēng
丨 丰
Combination of three 三 and a vertical stroke 丨
A tree 木with many twigs is abundant.  
傲
JLPT HSK 4
proud, arrogant, to despise, unyielding, to defy
ào
人 丰 放
Left: person 人, center top: abundance 丰 (= strongly growing plant with many branches 三), rest: release/let go 放 (In his side 方 he was striked 攵, until he released)
A person who is in abundance and lets things go, is: proud and arrogant.  
麦
JLPT HSK 5
wheat, barley, oats
mài
丰 夂
At top: growing plant bottom: up turned feet or sitting cross-legged 夂
Let the plants grow, sit down cross-legged and enjoy the wheat.  
毒
JLPT HSK 5
poison, narcotics, evil
dú
丰 母
Top: growing plant (here: vegetarian), below: mother 母 (= woman 女 with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
Vegetarian [nutrition] for mothers can be poisoning?  
慧
JLPT HSK 5
intelligent, wisdom, knowledge
huì
非 丰 彐 心
Top: comet 彗 (It does not 非 fall into your hands /彐: The comet), bottom: heart 心 [非 = reversed wings]
Anyone who cares for growing plants 丰 with hand and heart is intelligent.  
勤
JLPT HSK 5
diligent, industrious, hardworking, regular
qín
堇 丰 力
Left: blooming plant 堇 (from top: plant 艹, blossoms 口, growing plant ), right: strength/force 力
Blooming plants give me strength to work diligent and hard.  
青
JLPT HSK 5
green or blue, youth
qīng
青 丰
Top: growing plant , below: moon 月
Growing plants appear in the light of the moon as green, blue and young.  
蜂
JLPT HSK 5
bee, wasp
fēng
虫 夆 夂 丰
Left: insect 虫 (body 口 and sting of an insect), right: pointed 夆 (sitting cross-legged 夂 on top of a growing plant 丰)
This insects sits on top of a growing plant (= the blossom): the bee, wasp.  
谨
JLPT HSK 5
cautious, careful, solemnly, sincerely (formal)
jǐn
讠 堇 丰
Left: word 讠/言, right: blooming plant 堇 (from top: plant 艹, blossoms 口, growing plant )
Words and flowering plants should be handled cautiously.  
艳
JLPT HSK 5
colorful, splendid, gaudy, amorous, romantic, to envy
yàn
丰 色
Left: abundant 丰 (strongly growing plant), right: color 色 (The bent ⺈ and the slumped 巴 person have colorful sex)
An abundance of colors means: colorful and splendid.  
素
JLPT HSK 5
element, essence, nature, vegetarian, constituent, ever
sù
丰 糸
Top: growing plant , below: thread (= fiber) 糸
Growing plants comprise fibers which are their elements (constituents).  
牲
JLPT HSK 6
domestic animal, pet
shēng
牛 丰 生
Left: cow 牛, right: life 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant stands for life)
A cow has the live of a: domestic animal.  
栽
JLPT HSK 6
to plant, to grow, to insert
zāi
木 丰 戈
Left: ten 十, tree 木 (cf. abundant 丰), right: halberd 戈
Using a halberd (i.e. used as a plow) ten trees were planted.  
辖
JLPT HSK 6
linchpin of a wheel, to govern, control, administrative
xiá
車 害 丰
Left: vehicle 车/車 (= (cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: damaged 害 (Under the roof 宀 is a growing plant 丰 in a pot 口, which damaged it.)
If the vehicle is damaged, you see: The linchpin governs and administers.  
绑
JLPT HSK 6
to tie, bind or fasten together, to kidnap
bǎng
糸 邦 丰 ⻏
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: nation, country 邦 (If there is abundance 丰 [= flourishing plant] in the villages⻏, it will develop a nation)
By the thread of our nation, we are tied and bound together.  
债
JLPT HSK 6
debt, liability, obligation
zhài
亻 责 丰
Left: person 亻, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean responsibilities.)
A person bears the responsibility for his: debt.  
菲
JLPT no HSK
luxuriant (plant growth), Philippines 菲律宾
fēi
艹 非 丰
Top: grass 艹, bottom: not/denial 非 (opposing wings 羽) Here: twice as growing plant 丰
Grass and both growing plants are proliferating luxuriantly.  
邦
JLPT no HSK
nation, country, state
bāng
邦 丰 ⻏
Left: abundant 丰 (strongly growing plant), right: village⻏
If there is abundance in the villages, it will develop a nation.  
契
JLPT no HSK
to carve, carved words, a contract, agreement
qì
契 丰 刀 大
Top: tally stick , (pairwise marked sticks were distributed at the conclusion and joined again after implementation of an agreement), sword 刀, below: big 大
Cut into a tally stick with a sword in big letters: the contract.  
藉
JLPT no HSK
by means of, to insult, sleeping mat
jí, jiè
艹 丰 昔
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: rely on, plow 耤 (tree 木 with many branches 丰), right: old days 昔
It is growing the plant as a tree with many branches if in old days (=before), the plow furrows 一 were done. This is by means of them.  
愫
JLPT no HSK
sincere, honest, guileless
sù
忄 丰 糸
Left: feelings 忄, right: element, essence 素 (Growing plants 丰 consist of fibers 糸 which are their elements.)
The feeling, that is elementary / essential is to be: sincere.  
蚌
JLPT no HSK
mussel, clam, oyster, shell
bàng, bèng
虫 丰
Left: insect 虫, right: abundance 丰 (strongly growing plant)
An 'insect', that is in abundance, is the mussel.  

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