The Chinese Radical: 夂




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Meaning
upturned foot    夂

Explanation upturned foot or sitting crossed-legged - Do not mistake with the: "hand with a stick": /攴

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
guest, customer, visitor

At top: roof 宀, bottom: every 各 (With a crossed legs 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.)
He sits under the roof cross-legged on a cushion: Our guest!  
HSK 2
to prepare, get ready, to provide or equip
bèi
Top: crossed legs 夂 (partically understood as "upturned foot"), bottom: rice field 田
I am sitting crossed-legged at the rice field, because I am well prepared.  
HSK 2
long strip, (long thin things), article, clause (of law or treaty)
tiáo
Top: crossed legs/upturned foot 夂, below: tree 木
If sb. is sitting crossed-legged in a tree, he appears (from distance) like a long strip.  
HSK 2
affair, business, matter

Top: crossed legs 夂, bottom: force, power 力
He sits cross-legged but engages with force in: his affairs.  
HSK 3
to repeat, again, reply (to a letter)

From top: lying person as a variant of 人, sun 日, person sitting cross-legged 夂
Lying down or sitting in the sun cross-legged: We should repeat it.  
HSK 3
summer
xià
From top: cover 一 (against the sun), I, myself 自 (The emphasized ノ eye 目 is myself.), upturned foot (=sitting cross-legged) 夂
Covered (= in the shade) I myself sit cross-legged, because it is summer.  
HSK 4
to reside, to live, spot, bureau, to be in
chǔ, chù
Left: crossed legs 夂, right: fortune telling 卜 (=crack in turtle's shell)
Sit down with crossed legs and tell fortune whether this is a good place to reside.  
HSK 4
each, every, various

Top: upturned foot or crossed legs 夂, below: mouth 口 (here: futon/cushion)
Sitting cross-legged on a cushion does everybody.  
HSK 4
sour, acid
suān
Left: wine jar 酉, right: nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂)
Wine that smells like nose, legs and feet is sour.  
HSK 4
to fall (rain), to drop, to descend, to surrender
jiàng, xiáng
Left: hill 阝, right: upturned foot, sitting cross-legged 夂 (But here perhaps: image of dripping rain?), variant of stop 止
From the hill comes the falling rain and will stop at the bottom because it has fallen down.  
HSK 5
wheat, barley, oats
mài
At top: growing plant bottom: up turned feet, cross-legged 夂
Let the plants grow, sit down cross-legged and enjoy the wheat.  
HSK 5
fog, mist

Top: rain 雨, bottom: affair, business 务 (He sits cross-legged 夂, but he handles with force 力 his: affairs)
Rain is an affair connected with: fog or mist.  
HSK 5
smart, eminent, handsome, talented
jùn
Left: person 人, right: dawdle 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, cross-legged 夂)
A person with such a nose, legs and contorted feet must be smart.  
HSK 5
bee, wasp
fēng
Left: insect 虫 (body 口 and sting of an insect), right: pointed 夆 (sitting cross-legged 夂 on top of a growing plant 丰)
This insects sits on top of a growing plant (= the blossom): the bee, wasp.  
HSK 5
stupid, foolish, idiot
shǎ
Left: person 亻, right: 囟 (TV-set 口 with screen 㐅, antenna 丶 on a stand 八; and 夂 sitting cross-legged
A person being in front of the TV cross-legged, becomes: stupid.  
HSK 5
mansion, tall building, rear annex, lean-to
shà, xià
Left: cliff 厂, right: summer 夏 (Covered 一 [= in the shade] I myself 自 sit cross-legged 夂, because it is summer.)
Directly at the cliff and (nice like) the summer: our mansion.  
HSK 6
to cover, to overturn, to reply a letter

西
Top: west 西, bottom: to go 彳, repeat 复 (= Lying or in sun 日 sitting cross-legged 夂 is to be repeated)
In the west they go repeatingly that everything is overturned and covered up.  
HSK 6
summit or peak (of mountain), highest level
fēng
Left: mountain 山, right: sharp, pointed 夆 (sitting cross-legged 夂 on the top of growing plant 丰)
The mountain is sharp/pointed at: the summit or peak.  
HSK 6
mound, tomb, hill, mountain
líng
Left: hill 阝, right: dawdle 夌 (Who walks over the earth 土 with legs 儿 that are crossed 夂, is dawdling)
The hill where the earth comprises two legs 儿 that are crossed: is an imperial tomb.  
HSK 6
intense, prosperous, to swell, to bulge
lōng, lóng
Left: hill 阝, right: upturned-foot, crossed-legs 夂, one 一, life 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant stands for life.)
Sitting on a hill with crossed legs and my one life looks: intense & prosperous.  
HSK 6
exhausted
bèi
Top: preparation 备 (sitting cross-legged 夂 at rice field 田), bottom: heart 心
He sits cross-legged at the rice field because of his heart: He is exhausted.  
HSK 6
to instigate, incite, to stir up
suō
Left: mouth 口, right: to dawdle 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂)
Mouth, nose, legs and an upturned foot: That shall instigate?  
no HSK
wash, cleanse

Left: water 氵, right: strip, long thin things 条 (If sb. is sitting with crossed legs 夂 in a tree 木, he appears [from distance] like a long strip.)
(Steady supply of fresh water) Water should flow in long strips when: washing.  
no HSK
chimney
cōng
Above: emphasis 丶 (here: image of a chimney), outside: frame 囗 (here: room), inside: turned foot / cross-legged 夂
You sit cross-legged in a room below the chimney.  
窿
no HSK
cavity, hole
lóng
Top: hole, cavity 穴, below: intense, prosperous 隆 (Sitting on a hill 阝 with upturned 夂 feet, the one 一 life 生 looks intense & prosperous)
A hole, that is intense, is a: cavity.  

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