The Chinese Radical: 圭




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Meaning
piled earth    圭

Explanation Two times earth 土 on top of each other stands for piled-up earth. (Standing alone it has the meaning: jade sceptre)

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
road, street
jiē
Outside: to go 行, center: 圭 heap of soil 土 (= 2x earth)
I am going on elevated/piled earth: on a road.  
HSK 3
shoe
xié
Left: leather 革 (Horned 廿 animals have a skin 口 of leather.), right: 2x earth 圭 = piled earth (cf. with road/street 街, where you walk 行 over piled earth 圭)
The leather for the piled earth (= the street) is: the shoe!  
HSK 4
to seal, letter(=sealed objects), to grant
fēng
Left: piled/cumulated earth 圭 (=2x earth 土), right: skillful hand 寸
(cf. street 街 [= I go 行 over piled earth 圭] - Thus at road construction:) Earth is piled up by skillful hands and sealed.  
HSK 4
to hang (from a hook), link (telephone), to be worried
guà
Left: hand 扌, right: 圭 (2x earth 土)
The hand needs something elevated, like double piled earth, to hang something.  
HSK 6
baby, doll, pretty girl

Left: woman 女, right: double earth 圭
The woman brings behind the two heaps of earth the baby to the earth.  
HSK 6
beautiful, fine, good
jiā
Left: person 人, right: 圭 = 2x earth 土 as piled earth path cf. street 街)
The person strutting on the mounds of earth (= a street) is of excellent beauty.  
HSK 6
precipice, cliff

Top: mountain 山, below: 厓 (cliff 厂, heap 圭 of soil 土)
From the mountain down to the cliff and the soil: a steep precipice.  
HSK 6
Wow!, sound of child's crying or of vomiting
wā, wa
Comprises: to vomit 吐 (From his mouth 口 to the ground 土 he disgorged his vomit) with an extra earth 土) [Or: heaps of earth 圭]
To vomit on the ground sounds like crying or vomiting.  
no HSK
laurel, cassia, abbr. for Guangxi 广西壮族自治区
guì
Left: tree 木, right: piled earth 圭 (= 2x earth 土)
The tree on the piled earth is the laurel.  
no HSK
frog

Left: insect 虫, right: piled earth 圭 (2x earth 土)
The "insect" at the field's ridge (= where earth is piled) is the frog.  
no HSK
8th divinatory trigram
guà
Left: 圭 (twice earth 土, here: part of way/street 街, where you walk over piled earth.), right: fortune telling 卜 (crack in a turtle's shell used for divining, sometimes also: forking of a way)
About the way with a forking, there is the: divinatory trigram.  
no HSK
coat, jacket, gown, ensheath
guà
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: trigram 卦 (twice earth 圭 as fortune telling 卜 in trigram)
Clothes in fortune telling can ensheath as a coat.  
no HSK
depression, sunken, swamp, hollow

Left: water 氵, right: piled earth 圭 (twice earth 土)
Water (aggregates) within piled earth in: a depression.  
no HSK
silicon (chemistry)
guī
Left: stone 石, right: piled earth 圭
The stones in the piled earth are: silicon.  
no HSK
lady's chamber, boudoir, small arched door
guī
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: piled earth 圭 (Together with person 亻/人 this means: 'beautiful' 佳 (The person strutting 行 on the mounded street 街 is beautiful 佳)
Behind the gate is for the 'beautiful', the: lady's chamber.  
no HSK
border, horizon, shore

From left: water 氵, 厓 (cliff 厂, accumulated 圭 earth 土)
Water, a cliff or accumulated earth can (each) be a border.  
no HSK
crotch, stride
kuí
Top: big 大 (here: big person), bottom: piled earth 圭
A big person is over the piled earth with one stride.  
no HSK
jade tablet
guī

Twice earth on top of each other 圭 as the image of a tablet. The radical has the meaning: piled earth  
no HSK
anger, rage
huì
Top: piled earth 圭 (2x earth 土), bottom: heart 心
With twice earth in your heart you are: in anger.  

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