The Chinese Radical: 了

Meaning	past tense identifier    了
Explanation
Used in these characters: 了 JLPT HSK 1 to be completed, to understand clearly, past-tense-suffix le, liǎo 了 乛 亅 A child 子, but without arms A child without arms? I understand: It has to be completed!   疗 JLPT HSK 5 medical treatment, to cure, therapy liáo 疒 了 Left: disease 疒 (An ice- 冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), right: past tense identifier, to fulfill 了 (The still arm-less 了 child 子 should be completed.) Turning the disease into 'history', means: treatment. - Or: The disease of the arm-less 了 child 子, shall be treated.   哼 JLPT HSK 6 to groan, to snort, to hum, to croon, humph! hēng 口 亨 亠 了 Left: mouth 口, right: prosperous 亨 (Who makes big/high 高 things to accomplish 了 is prosperous.) [了 = The still arm-less 了 child 子 should be completed.] Out of the mouth 口 below the nose 亠, this mouth 口, comes out 了 a groan.   辽 JLPT HSK 6 distantly apart, far away liáo 辶 了 Left: movement 辶, right: perfect suffix, to accomplish 了 (The still arm-less 了 child 子 should be completed.) Since his movement was in perfect tense, he is in far distance.   亨 JLPT no HSK prosperous, flourish hēng 亨 高 了 亠 Top: variation of high 高, bottom: perfect suffix 了 for accomplishing (The still arm-less 了 child 子 should be completed.) Who makes big/high things to accomplish is prosperous.   亟 JLPT no HSK urgent, repeatedly, frequently jí, qì 二 了 Outside: sigh, gasp 叹 (The mouth 口 should be (covered) with the hand 又, when: sighing.), inside: to accomplish (Past-suffix) 了 (The still arm-less 了 child 子 should be completed.), one 一 He sighed at the completion because it was so urgent.
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