The Chinese Radical: 戶




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Meaning
door    戶

Explanation Image of a sliding door 尸 in an upper guidance rail.

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
room, house
fáng
Top: door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), bottom: direction/square 方
Behind the door is a square: A room!  
HSK 2
place, address, location, actually
suǒ
Left: (sliding) door 戸, right axe 斤
Next to the door there is (always) the axe, (exactly) in this place, which is its "address".  
HSK 3
sound, voice
shēng
Top: scholar 士, bottom: variant of door/gate 戸 (sliding door with upper rail)
The scholar is at the door: I hear his voice.  
HSK 3
to protect, guard, shield

Left: hand 扌, right: door 戸/户 (image of a sliding door with an upper rail)
Like a hand, also a door can: protect.  
HSK 4
a household, door, family

Also used as 戸
A sliding door with an upper guidance rail means: household.  
HSK 4
classifier for written items, sheet or paper
piān
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
When bamboo is flat (like a door plate), it is used for writing texts.  
HSK 4
everywhere, all over, classifier for actions: one time
biàn
Left: movement 辶, right: flat 扁 (door 戸 with writing tablet 冊 as: "door plate")
(They often hang on strings) Moveable door plates are everywhere.  
HSK 5
to weave, plait, organize, compose
biān
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
If threads are laid as flatly, as doors or tablets are, it is weaving, plaiting or composing.  
HSK 5
to open, to start, to initiate, to awaken

Left: sliding door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), right: mouth 口 (here: entrance)
The sliding door is the entrance, where it (= the inner) starts and opens.  
HSK 5
shoulder, to shoulder (responsibilities)
jiān
Top: door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), below: body 月/肉
(As big as a) door is this part of the body: The shoulder.  
HSK 5
fan, ventilator, with a hinge (door, window)
shān, shàn
Top: gate/door 戸, below: wings 羽
Gates and wings are hinged like a fan.  
HSK 6
employee, to hire, to rent

Top: door 戸, below: bird 隹 (Here: door of a shop, in which sb. is shouting for clients)
The one in the door (shouting) like a bird is an employee.  
HSK 6
a furnace, a stove

Left: fire 火, right: door 戸
The fire (closed by) a door is a furnace.  
HSK 6
biased, one-sided, prejudiced, inclined, slant
piān
Left: person 人, right: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
(As if they had their fixed opinion on a sign around their neck:) People who are flat like a door plate are biased and one-sided.  
HSK 6
to envy (success, talent), jealous

Left: woman 女, right: sliding door 戸
The woman (behind) the sliding door is full of envy.  
HSK 6
flat, plan, small boat
biǎn
Left: sliding door 戸, right: writing tablet 冊
Doors and writing tablets are flat.  
no HSK
short name for Shanghai 上海

Left: water 氵, right: sliding door 戸
At the water is this 'sliding door': The harbor-city: Shanghai  
no HSK
leisure
xiá
Left: day 日, center: var. of door 戸 (with stairs 二), right: tool コ/工, hand 又
(DIY = Home improvement as a hobby:) The day when I repair door and stairs with a tool in my hand is my leisure time.  
no HSK
hut, cottage

广
Left: building 广, right: sliding door 戸
A building with only a sliding door is: a small hut.  
no HSK
reed, rush, hurry

Left: growing plant 艹, right: sliding door 戸
The plant (for building) a sliding door is the reed, where you can then rush through.  
no HSK
fan into a flame, incite
shān
Left: fire 火, right: fan, ventilator 扇 (Gates 戸 and wings 羽 are hinged like fans.)
At the fire you use a fan for inciting.  
no HSK
donkey

Left: horse 马/馬, right: sliding door 戸 here: back/buttons 尸 with a load 一)
The 'horse' that is loaded, is: the donkey.  
no HSK
the start, the origin, at first, devise, originate
zhào
Top: sliding door 戶, strike 攵 (hand 又 with a stick 卜), below: to write 聿 (hand with a pen 丨 writes two lines 二)
(The author of a novella) The sliding door is slammed. When he wrote it down, it was (from the story) the: Beginning.  
no HSK
a board with an inscription, a sign above a door, a tablet
biǎn
Left: partial frame 匸, inside: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat. Or: A door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊 as: "door plate")
A frame with a flat door plate is: a scripted board.  
no HSK
retinue, retainer, henchman

Left: sliding door 戸, right: village, city 邑 (as a radical typically ⻏ and always at the right side of a character)
At the door is the (whole) village as: retinue.  

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