The Chinese Radical: 丰


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growing plant    丰

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

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
life, to be born, to grow, raw/uncooked
shēng
Accent/emphasis (here: a twig) at a growing plant / [cf. abundant ]
The twig at the growing plant stands for life.  
JLPT HSK 1
year
nián
Comprises the trunk of a tree with three 三 branches, which is understood as a growing plant /. Additionally with two accents , which are understood as fruits.
When the growing plants bear fruit, it has passed: another year.  
JLPT HSK 2
exterior surface, outside, to show (one's opinion)
biǎo
Top: growing plant , below: clothes
Growing plants and clothes show at the surface.  
JLPT HSK 2
passion, emotion, feeling, situation
qíng
Left: feeling , right: young, blue (Growing plants / appear in the moonshine blue and young.)
The feeling of the youth is passion.  
JLPT HSK 2
to help, to assist, to support, side (of boat etc)
bāng
Top: country/nation (= abundance in the villages) [abundance = flourish plant], bottom: cloth
If there is abundance in the villages you can give cloth as a help.  
JLPT HSK 2
eye, eyeball
jīng
Left: eye , right: young, green/blue (Growing plants / appear in the moonshine blue and young.)
It is in the eye and can be green/blue: the eyeball.  
JLPT HSK 2
clear, fine (weather)
qíng
Left: day/sun , right: young, blue (Growing plants appear in the moonshine blue and young.)
Sunny and blue (sky) - It's sunny and the weather's cleared up.  
JLPT HSK 3
to damage, to cause trouble to, calamity
hài
From top: roof , growing plant [cf. abundant ], pot
Under the roof (of the house) is a growing potted plant, which caused a damage.  
JLPT HSK 3
clear, pure, to clean up, purge
qīng
Left: water , right: blue, young (Growing plants / appear in the moonshine blue and young.)
Water that is blue (or young) is clear and pure.  
JLPT HSK 3
calm, quiet, not moving
jìng
Left: blue, young (Growing plants appear in the moonshine blue and young.), right: dispute/fight (A bent person with a stick in hand is looking for dispute)
A "young" dispute is still calm and quiet.  
JLPT HSK 3
merit, accomplishment

Left: thread 纟/, right: responsibility (... for growing plants and money /貝)
Threads have the responsibility (i.e. in woven form) to provide a merit.  
JLPT HSK 4
responsibility, duty, to reproach, to blame

Top: growing plant /, below: shell/money /貝 (= cone-shell with two feelers as shell-money)
Growing plants and money mean responsibility.  
JLPT HSK 4
personality, nature, character, sexuality, gender
xìng
Left: feeling , right: life/birth (The twig at the growing plant stands for life.)
Feelings you have at your birth determine your personality.  
JLPT HSK 4
abundant, plentiful, great, buxom
fēng
Combination of three 三 and a vertical stroke
A tree with many twigs is abundant.  
JLPT HSK 4
proud, arrogant, to despise, unyielding, to defy
ào
Left: person , center top: abundance (= strongly growing plant with many branches 三), rest: release/let go (In his side he was striked 攵, until he released)
A person who is in abundance and lets things go, is: proud and arrogant.  
JLPT HSK 5
wheat, barley, oats
mài
At top: growing plant bottom: up turned feet, cross-legged
Let the plants grow, sit down cross-legged and enjoy the wheat.  
JLPT HSK 5
poison, narcotics, evil

Top: growing plant (here: vegetarian), below: mother (= woman with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
Vegetarian [nutrition] for mothers can be poisoning?  
JLPT HSK 5
diligent, industrious, hardworking, regular
qín
Left: blooming plant (from top: plant , blossoms , growing plant ), right: strength/force
Blooming plants give me strength for my: diligent hardworking.  
JLPT HSK 5
green or blue, youth
qīng
Top: growing plant , below: moon
Growing plants appear in the light of the moon as green, blue and young.  
JLPT HSK 5
bee, wasp
fēng
Left: insect (body and sting of an insect), right: pointed (sitting cross-legged on top of a growing plant )
This insects sits on top of a growing plant (= the blossom): the bee, wasp.  
JLPT HSK 5
cautious, careful, solemnly, sincerely (formal)
jǐn
Left: word /, right: blooming plant (from top: plant , blossoms , growing plant )
Words and flowering plants should be handled cautiously.  
JLPT HSK 5
colorful, splendid, gaudy, amorous, romantic, to envy
yàn
Left: abundant (strongly growing plant), right: color (The bent and the slumped person have colorful sex)
An abundance of colors means: colorful and splendid.  
JLPT HSK 5
element, essence, nature, vegetarian, constituent, ever

Top: growing plant , below: thread (= fiber)
Growing plants comprise fibers which are their elements (constituents).  
JLPT HSK 6
domestic animal, pet
shēng
Left: cow , right: life (The twig at the growing plant stands for life)
A cow has the live of a: domestic animal.  
JLPT HSK 6
to plant, to grow, to insert
zāi
Left: ten , tree (cf. abundant ), right: halberd
Using a halberd (i.e. used as a plow) ten trees were planted.  
JLPT HSK 6
linchpin of a wheel, to govern, control, administrative
xiá
Left: vehicle /車 (= (cart with axle load-area wheels ), right: damaged (Under the roof is a growing plant in a pot , which damaged it.)
If the vehicle is damaged, you see: The linchpin governs and administers.  
JLPT HSK 6
to tie, bind or fasten together, to kidnap
bǎng
Left: thread 纟/, right: nation, country (If there is abundance [=strongly growing plant] in the villages, it will develop a nation)
By the thread of our nation, we are tied and bound together.  
JLPT HSK 6
debt, liability, obligation
zhài
Left: person , right: responsibility (Growing plants and money /貝 mean responsibilities.)
A person bears the responsibility for his: debt.  
JLPT no HSK
luxuriant (plant growth), Philippines 菲律宾
fēi
Top: grass , bottom: not/denial (opposing wings )
Grass is often denied (= rejected) because it grows too luxuriant.  
JLPT no HSK
nation, country, state
bāng
Left: abundant (strongly growing plant), right: village
If there is abundance in the villages, it will develop a nation.  
JLPT no HSK
to carve, carved words, a contract, agreement

Top: tally stick , (pairwise marked sticks were distributed at the conclusion and joined again after implementation of an agreement), sword , below: big
Cut into a tally stick with a sword in big letters: the contract.  
JLPT no HSK
by means of, to insult, sleeping mat
jí, jiè
Top: grass, plant , bottom: rely on, plow 耤 (tree with many branches ), right: old days
It is growing the plant as a tree with many branches if in old days (=before), the plow furrows were done. This is by means of them.  
JLPT no HSK
sincere, honest, guileless

Left: feelings , right: element, essence 素 (Growing plants consist of fibers which are their elements.)
The feeling, that is essential is to be: sincere.  
JLPT no HSK
mussel, clam, oyster, shell
bàng, bèng
Left: insect , right: abundance (strongly growing plant)
An 'insect', that is in abundance, is the mussel.  

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