The Chinese Radical: 刍




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Meaning
mowing grass    刍

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 5
to hasten, to hurry, to walk fast, tendency

Left: to walk/go 走 (On earth 土 feet 足 have to walk.), right: mowing grass 刍 (here a variation of: hurry 急 [The bent person ⺈ holds with the hand 彐 at the heart 心 because he was in a hurry.]
Walking in a hurry means: to hasten.
HSK 6
to wrinkle, folding, to crease, frown
zhòu
Left: mowing grass 刍 (handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
When sb. with a scythe in the hand peels of the skin, he causes wrinkles.
no HSK
to terminate, cut short, to squeeze, to reduce
shā, shà
Left: mowing grass 刍 (with a handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: to strike 攵/攴 (a hand 又 with a stick 卜), bottom: fire 灬
By mowing or strikes or fire you can make things terminate.
no HSK
vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC)
zōu
Left: mowing grass 刍, (handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: village⻏
Here the grass was mowed for the villages: during Zhou.
no HSK
chick, young bird
chú
Left: mowing grass 刍 (handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: bird 隹
The little head ⺈ above the edge of the nest 彐. This bird is: the chick.

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