The Chinese Radical: 尹




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Meaning
hand with stick    尹

Explanation Shows a hand with a stick ノ and is often used for “ruling”. For “beating 攴”, this stick 卜 in this hand 又 is used and simplified to 攵.

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
calm, quiet, not moving
jìng
Left: blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.), right: dispute/fight 争 (A bent person ⺈ with a stick 亅 in hand is looking for dispute)
A "young" dispute is still calm and quiet.  
HSK 3
healthy, peaceful, abundant
kāng
广
Left/top: building 广, below: a hand with a spoon 丨 stirs a liquid 水
In a building a hand stirs a soup that is healthy.  
HSK 3
skirt
qún
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: monarch, master 君 (Here: hand with needle ノ and circumferential closed 口 skirt [in cross-sectional view])
This clothing is sewn made with a needle in a hand and looks (in cross-sectional view) like a skirt: The skirt!  
HSK 4
dispute, to strive for, to argue or debate
zhēng
Top: bent person ⺈, below: hand /彐, stick 亅
The bent person with a stick in his hand is looking for a dispute.  
HSK 5
respectful, solemn, to eliminate, clean up

Variation of to write 聿 (hand with pen 丨 writes two lines 二) - Consider the difference to: servant 隶
When drawing four lines vertically, you might be very respectful?  
HSK 5
flock, group, crowd, herd
qún
Left: monarch, master 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in a hand on a mouth 口), right: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep)
If a monarch has sheep, then a flock.  
HSK 6
quick, nimble, prompt, victory, triumph, Czech
jié
Left: hand 扌, right: 疌 (middle: hand with stick 尹, rest: correct 正) Here: 疌 as part of eyelashes 睫
The hand holding the stick correctly in the hand is quick and will have a victory. OR: A hand being as fast as eyelashes is: quick.  
HSK 6
master, lord, gentleman, ruler
jūn
Top: 尹 (A hand holding a stick ノ), below: mouth 口
The one with a stick in his hand strikes on somebody`s mouth, because he is: the master/lord.  
no HSK
to administer, to oversee, to run, magistrate (old)
yǐn
丿
Hand 彐 or with stick ノ
With a stick in your hand, you: administer.  
no HSK
distressed, embarrassed
jiǒng
Left: hole, cavity 穴 (It is covered 宀 and a narrowing path 八 leads into the cave), right: monarch/lord 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in a hand on a mouth 口)
When you report about the hole to the lord, you are: distressed.  
no HSK
county, canton, region
jùn
Left: monarch, lord 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in the hand on a mouth 口), right: village ⻏
The lord and the village determine the county.  
no HSK
he, she, abbr. for Iraq or Iran

Left: person 亻, right: to administer, rule 尹 (.. with a stick ノ in the hand you administer)
The person with the stick in his hand point to him/her.  
no HSK
bamboo shoot
sǔn
Top: bamboo 竹, below: 尹 (hand with a stick but here: with a seedling that is planted)
Bamboo is planted by hand with seedlings to become a sprout.  

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