The Chinese Radical: 彡


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Meaning
hair or bristle    彡

Explanation

Used in these characters:
影
JLPT HSK 1
shadow, reflection, movie, photograph
yǐng
景 彡 京 日
Left: panorama, view 景 (The sun 日 above the capital 京 [= stone lantern] is a panorama.), right: hair 彡
(When long hair are in front of the eyes:) The panorama appears through the hair like: in a shadow.  
须
JLPT HSK 3
beard, mustache, feeler (of insect), to have to
xū
彡 頁
Left: hair 彡, right: page, leaf (页/頁= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
The hair on the head may also be a beard.  
参
JLPT HSK 3
attend, participate, join, irregular
cān, shēn, cēn
参 厶 大 彡
From top: nose 厶 (a nose in side view), big 大, hairy 彡 (Originally this was the image of a kneeling woman 女 = くノ一 with long hair 彡 (possibly with hairpins 八 ?), with the meaning: beautiful)
Where the kneeling woman 厶 with the big hair is, I would like to participate.  
衫
JLPT HSK 3
shirt, gown, robe, jacket with open slits in place of sleeves
shān
衣 彡
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: hair 彡
Clothes (that is warming) like hair, is: the shirt.  
彩
JLPT HSK 4
colorful, colored, tint
cǎi
采 彡 爫
Left: to pluck 采 (hand 爫 plucks from above into a tree 木), right: hair 彡 (here: tree flowers)
You pluck (i.e. on a meadow) three flowers, which are colorful.  
修
JLPT HSK 4
to remodel, repair, study, decorate, cultivate
xiū
亻 彡 攸
From left: person 亻, stick 丨, to beat 攵 (hand 又 with stick ノ), hair 彡
A person puts by hand two sticks in his hair to remodel (decorate) it.  
形
JLPT HSK 5
appearance, shape, form
xíng
开 彡
Left: open, start 开 (image of the entrance gate of a buddh. temple), right: hair 彡
With open hair you are in good appearance.  
膨
JLPT HSK 6
swollen, to swell, inflated, expand
péng
肉 壴 彡
Left: body('s part) 月/肉, right: drums 彭 (壴 [twig 十 over bean/drums 豆], right: hair 彡)
This body's part is big as 10 beans and hairy, and is: swelling.  
渗
JLPT HSK 6
to seep, infiltrate, permeate, to horrify
shèn
氵 参 彡
Left: water 氵, right: participate 参 (Where the simplified 厶 woman 女 with the big 大 hair 彡 is, I like to participate.)
If water participates, it seeped in.  
彰
JLPT HSK 6
manifest, conspicuous
zhāng
早 章 彡
Left: medal, badge 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.), right: hair 彡
The medals in the hair are manifest.  
杉
JLPT no HSK
fir, pine, cedar
shā, shān
木 彡
Left: tree 木, right: hair 彡
(There is a preparation made from cedar oil to combat hair loss.) The tree for the three hairs is the cedar/pine tree.  
彬
JLPT no HSK
ornamental, refined
bīn
林 彡
Left: forest 林, right: hair 彡 (or right: fir/pine 杉)
In the forest you hang hair as an ornamental refinement? (Among the trees 木, the fir/pine 杉 is ornamental.)  
彪
JLPT no HSK
(tiger)-stripes, a tiger-cat, streaks, veins
biāo
彡 虍 儿
Left: tiger 虎 (= tiger 虍 on the hind legs 儿), right: hair 彡
The tiger's hair have stripes.  
彦
JLPT no HSK
elegant, intelligent, accomplished
yàn
产 彡 彦
Top: production, give birth 产 (here: to stand 立 and cliff 厂), bottom: hair 彡
He stands on the cliff and the hair looks elegant.  
澎
JLPT no HSK
sound of waves, splatter
péng
氵 壴 彡
Left: water 氵, right: drums 彭 (壴 [twig 十 over bean/drums 豆], right: hair 彡)
When the water is drumming until the hair is slanted, then: it roars.  
穆
JLPT no HSK
solemn, reverent, calm
mù
禾 白 彡
Left: rice plant 禾, right: variant of spring 原 (white 白water/river 川 (=小), hair 彡 (= three drops of water)
For the rice plants, a white river of three water-drops flows and it becomes: solemn.  
彭
JLPT no HSK
surname Peng
péng
壴 豆 彡
Left: drum 壴 (twig 十 over bean/drum 豆), right: three hairs 彡
The one at the drum with the three sticks is: the 'Péng'.  

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