The Chinese Radical: 昔


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Meaning
former times    昔

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
flawed, mistake, wrong, interlocking, to polish
cuò
Left: metal/gold 钅(=金 Covered in the ground 土 are 2 gold nuggets 丷), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old times.)
(Today's steel is better) The metal of former times was flawed.  
HSK 3
to borrow, to lend, excuse
jiè
Left: person 亻, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old times.)
(I did not forget:) This person has in the old days: borrowed sth.  
HSK 4
regret, pity, to rue, to begrudge

Left: feeling 忄, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old days)
(Times are getting harder:) Feelings we had in the old days, were the regrets.  
HSK 4
registry, book or record, membership, nationality

Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: 耤 (a tree 耒 used as a tally stick with many notches 丰, cut into to count things, right: old days 昔
Bamboo or tally sticks were in old days used as a registry.  
HSK 5
to handle, to manage, measure, to execute
cuò
Left: hand 扌, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old days.)
By hands in the old days measures were handled and managed.  
HSK 5
vinegar, jealousy (in love rivalry)

Left: alcohol 酉, right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times)
It was alcohol in former times, now it's changed to vinegar.  
HSK 6
former times, the past

Top: 龷 (here: together 共 = Put the plants 艹 on the table together.), bottom: sun 日
Together in the sun we think of the old days.  
HSK 6
candle, wax

Left: insect 虫 (here: a bee 蜂), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times)
This insect (= the bee) was in former times used for the wax of the candles.  
HSK 6
hunting
liè
Left: wild animal 犭(here: hound [dog for hunting]), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times.)
Hounds were formerly used for hunting.  
no HSK
December, preserved (meat)

Left: body, meat 月/肉, right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former days)
When we eat the meat from former times (= sth. preserved), it is: December.  
no HSK
by means of, to insult, sleeping mat
jí, jiè
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: rely on, plow 耤 (tree 木 with many branches 丰), right: old days 昔
It is growing the plant as a tree with many branches if in old days (=before), the plow furrows 一 were done. This is by means of them.  
no HSK
magpie
què
left: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times), right: bird 鸟/鳥
(Magpies have a good memory) A sense for 'former times' has this bird: the magpie.  

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.
廿

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