The Chinese Radical: 歹


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Meaning
bad, wicked    歹

Explanation Actually the representation of a bone or dorsal vertebra.

Used in these characters:
HSK 4
row, to arrange, to line up, series
liè
Left: evil, bad 歹 (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: knife 刂
(i.e. backbone) The bones are lain bare by knife: arranged in a row.  
HSK 4
example, precedent, rule, instance

Left: person 亻, right: row 列 (A [back-]bone 歹 is exposed with a knife刂 in a row.)
A person queuing in a line/row sets an example.  
HSK 4
to die, impassable, inflexible

bad, wicked 歹 (= vertebrae or rib) and sitting person 匕 under the ground 一
If the bones of the sitting person are under the earth, this means: to die.  
HSK 5
unique, special, extraordinary
shū
Left: bad, wicked 歹 [= bare bone, vertebrae or rib], right: vermilion 朱 (A branch of a young [=not yet] 未 tree 木 has sth. red ノ =apple?)
Bare bones that are vermilion, are very unique.  
HSK 5
burning fiercely, intense, ardent
liè
Top: row 列 (wicked 歹 [bar bone] is exposed with a knife刂 in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: fire 灬
A row of fires burns fiercely.  
HSK 6
to grow, to reproduce, increase
zhí
Left: bad, wicked 歹 (=bare bone, HERE: variation of many 多), right: immediately 直 (Ten 十 eyes 目 watch the base line __ which is straight.)
Many things can immediately be grown & reproduced.  
HSK 6
to destroy, to ruin, cruel, incomplete, to remain
cán
Left: bad, wicked 歹[= bare bone], right: 戋 (two 二 halberds 戈)
Only bones and two halberds remained: at the destruction.  
HSK 6
bad, wicked, evil
dǎi

The image of a bare bone 歹, like vertebrae or rib, stands for bad or wicked.  
HSK 6
calamity, disaster
yāng
Left: bad, wicked 歹 (vertebrae or rib), right: center 央 (The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered.)
If the bad is in the center, it is a calamity.  
no HSK
dangerous, perilous, endanger, almost, only
dài
Left: evil, bad 歹 (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: platform, rack 台 (nose 厶 over the mouth 口)
If sth. evil like a bare bone is on the platform, it is dangerous.  
no HSK
dutiful death, to die for a cause, martyrdom
xùn
Left: bare bone 歹 (rib or vertebrae), right: period of 10 days 旬 (When the sun 日 is enwrapped 勹 (by clouds), then often for a duration of 10 days)
The bare bones will remain there for ten days after the dutiful death.  
no HSK
to destroy, to annihilate
jiān
Left: bad, wicked 歹 (= bare bone), right: thousand 千
When there are bare bones in thousands, it is: a destruction.  
no HSK
a funeral, to encoffin a corpse
bìn
Left: bad, evil 歹 (image of a bone), right: visitor, guest 宾 (Under your roof 宀 a soldier 兵 is billeted as your guest.)
Bones and visitors are: at a funeral.  

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