The Chinese Radical: 亠


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Meaning
lid    亠

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
capital city of a country
jīng

A stone lantern as a symbol for the capital.  
HSK 1
brain, mind, head, essence
nǎo
Left: bodypart 月/肉, right: "trash can" 㐫 (cover 亠 and fierce 凶 = container 凵 with dreadful 㐅 inside)
The body part 㐅 that is in a covered container is: the brain.  
HSK 1
to shine, bright, clear, brilliant, resonant
liàng
Top: variant of high 高 (guard tower with two floors), bottom: table 几
(Watchtowers were also used on the Chinese Wall for signal fires:) A watchtower on an elevated position (like on a 'table'), gives it shine and brightness.  
HSK 3
ask for, to beg, seek, look for, request
qiú
Top: cover 亠 (here: one 一 and drop 丶), below: water 水
[I'm dying of thirst:] Just one drop of water, this is my: request!  
HSK 3
market, city
shì
Top: a cover 亠, below: fabric/cloth 巾
You get covers and cloth in the city on the market.  
HSK 4
to get angry, hate, enraged
nǎo
Left: feelings 忄, right: trash can 㐫 (cover 亠 and grim 凶 [container 凵 with dreadful 㐅 content])
Feelings for the trash can are: anger and hate.  
HSK 4
cream, balm, ointment, paste
gāo
Top: high 高 (actually a guard tower, but here: a cover/lid 亠 and three layers 口,冖,口 of the skin), bottom: part of body 月/肉
It's a cover for the three layers of the body's skin: the cream or balm.  
HSK 5
to break into pieces, fragmentary
suì
Left: stone 石 (At the cliff 厂 is a stone 口), right: soldier, suddenly 卒 (Between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly)
Stones between two rotary discs are broken into pieces.  
HSK 5
to give birth, to produce, estate
chǎn
Combination of: standing 立 and factory 厂 (when used as radical understood as: 'cliff')
If something is standing on the cliff, it was produced (or born).  
HSK 5
rate, ratio, frequency, to lead, usually
lǜ, shuài
From top: rotary disc 亠, thread 糸 (cf. mysterious 玄), four small items 冫, rotary disc 亠
Two rotary turn threads 玄 into smaller items 冫in a certain ratio.  
HSK 5
to be drunk, intoxicated
zuì
Left: alcohol 酉, right: soldier, suddenly 卒 (Between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly.)
The alcohol lets you 从 be as if between two rotary disks, when you are drunk.  
HSK 5
night

At top a cover/roof 亠 (of a building), below a person 亻/人 and a variant of moon 月
On the roof is a person watching the moon during the night.  
HSK 6
to tremble, to shiver, to shake, to vibrate
zhàn, chàn
Left: 亶 (cover 亠, rotate 回, sun rise 旦), right: page, (fore)head 页 (= 頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
If under the cover all is rotating at sun rise in your head, you tremble and shiver.  
HSK 6
compassionate, gentle, kind, humane

Top: now/here 兹 (2x mysterious 玄 [turning disc 亠, var. of thread 糸] or variation of magnet 磁 [= the mysterious stone]), below: heart 心
Like a magnet is his heart: so compassionate.  
HSK 6
to groan, to snort, to hum, to croon, humph!
hēng
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.  
HSK 6
to die, deceased, to lose, to flee
wáng
(Originally: left:. corner , in this corner character for "person" 人, which changed to "lid" 亠)
Coffin seen in a cross-sectional view as symbol for dying.  
HSK 6
also, namely, likewise, that is

Variation of red 赤 (When earth (clay) 土 is burned 灬, the pottery becomes red.)
To consider this variation 亦 as red 赤, is what you also can do.  
HSK 6
without authority, to usurp, to monopolize, to be good at
shàn
Left: hand 扌, right: 亶 (cover 亠, rotate 回, sun rise 旦)
(A rotatable blind [= jalousie] at the window) The hand that turns the cover, before the sunrise, does this: unauthorized.  
no HSK
size of fields, (one fifteenth of a hectare)

Top: cover 亠, bottom: field 田
Only as big as a lid: this field size.  
no HSK
to make a report (to a superior), petition, to give
bǐng
From top: cover 亠, return, revolve 回, to show 示/礻
It is still covered (= confidential), but at the return I show: the report.  
no HSK
freezing, shiver with cold or fear, strict, afraid, stern
lǐn
Left: ice 冫, right: report, petition 禀 (It is covered 亠 (= confidential) and at my return 回 I show 示: the report.)
At the ice-cold report I shivered of fear.  
no HSK
pig, boar of the 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m.
hài

Variation of pig 豕 and shows head 亠, fat body ノノ and small tail 丶.  
no HSK
overbearing, excessive
kàng
The sturdy navigator 亢 known from navigation 航 with a broad neck and wearing a cap.
The navigator is overbearing.  
no HSK
soldier, servant, abrupt, sudden, to finish, to die
cù, zú
From top: rotary disc 亠, two persons 人, rotary disc 十
Between two rotary discs persons are squeezed who are soldiers, who die suddenly.  
no HSK
harmony
yōng
Top: cover 亠, bottom: country, native place 乡 (here two noses 厶), bird 隹
Under a cover two noses' birds live: in harmony.  
no HSK
sandalwood, hardwood
tán
Left: tree 木, right: 亶 (cover 亠, rotate 回, sun rise 旦)
The tree that grows in the shade (=covered) all around at sunrise: is the sandalwood.  
no HSK
prosperous, flourish
hēng
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.  
no HSK
disrespectful, obscene, licentious
xiè
Top und down: cloth 衤(衣), middle: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.)
Grasping someone's clothes [i.e. by hand 扌 at a button 丸] is disrespectful.  
no HSK
to accuse of misconduct, impeach

Left: (zodiac) pig 亥 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶, cf. 豚), right: strength 力
You need a pig's strength to accuse sb. for that crime.  

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