The Chinese Radical: 执


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Meaning
grasp, seize    执

Explanation If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
hot, heat, to warm up, fervent

Top: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌 to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.), bottom: fire 灬 [bead, pill 丸 = A 'nine' 九 needs an additional stroke 丶 to become round like a pill/bead.]
If your hand holds a bead over the fire, it gets really hot.
HSK 5
grasp, seize, to hold in hand, receipt, to execute (a plan)
zhí
Left: hand 扌/手, right: small bead 丸 (A 'nine' 九 needs an additional stroke 丶 to become round like a pill)
If you have a small bead in your hand, you hold it.
HSK 5
power, influence, potential, conditions, gesture
shì
Top: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it) [bead, pill 丸 = A 'nine' 九 needs an additional stroke 丶 to become round like a pill.], bottom: power 力
Grasping with power means power and influence.
HSK 6
mat, mattress, pad, cushion
diàn
Top: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.), bottom: earth 土
By hand the beads/pills (are spread) to form: a mattress.
HSK 6
sincere, cordial
zhì
Top: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.), bottom: hand 手
If you have grasped it with your (whole) hand, then it is sincere.
no HSK
disrespectful, obscene, licentious
xiè
Top und down: cloth 衤(衣), middle: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.)
Grasping someone's clothes [i.e. by hand 扌 at a button 丸] is disrespectful.

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