The Chinese Radical: 容




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Meaning
appearance, look    容

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
appearance, look, to hold, to contain
róng
Top: roof 宀, below: valley 谷 (Shows a valley that opens into a plain 口)
The roofs in the valley determine the appearance.  
HSK 6
to melt, to dissolve, soluble
róng
Left: water 氵, right: appearance 容 (The roofs 宀 in the valley 谷 are an appearance.)
Water comes from the roof into the valley, because it is melting.  
no HSK
lotus
róng
Left: plant 艹, right: appearance 容 (The houses 宀 in the valley 谷 have an appearance.)
(With the big pink blossom:) The plant for your good appearance is: The lotus.  
no HSK
to smelt, to fuse
róng
Left: fire 火, right: appearance 容 (The houses 宀 in the valley 谷 are an appearance.)
Fire causes the "appearance" of smelting.  
no HSK
astute, perspicacious, farsighted
ruì
Top: variation of appearance 容 (The houses 宀 in the valley 谷 are an appearance.), bottom: eye 目
An appearance 容 with one 一 eye 目 is perspicacious.  
no HSK
channel, gully, narrow ravine, bed of torrent

Top: 㕡 (Upper left resembles: cavity,hole 穴 and valley 谷 with other elements showing a channel itself) and hand 又), bottom: earth 土
(So that the water can flow away) A hole for running towards the valley was formed by the hand in the earth as a channel or canal.  

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