The Chinese Radical: 疋


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Meaning
bolt of cloth    疋

Explanation Don't mistake with correct: 正

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
topic, problem for discussion, subject, to inscribe

Left: correct, indeed 是 (sun 日, correct 正), right: page, leaf 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
The correct head is the topic of the discussion.  
HSK 2
egg, oval shaped
dàn
Top: correct 正 (To stop 止 at the line 一 is correct, - actually 疋 = bales of cloth), bottom: insect 虫 (The body 口 and the sting 厶 of an insect.)
It is correct for insects to lay: eggs.  
HSK 3
clear, orderly, distinct, pain, suffering
chǔ
Top: forest 林 (= two trees 木), bottom: correct 正 [actually bales of cloth 疋] (the correct foot 止 stops at the line 一)
The forest is correct if it is clear and orderly.  
HSK 4
to doubt, to misbelieve, to suspect

Left: sitting person 匕, arrow 矢; right: bent person マ, correct 正
The sitting person with the arrow and the bent person are right with their doubt.  
HSK 5
sneeze

Left: mouth 口, right: fall, stumble 疐 (Person 十 falling from a roof 冖 into a field 田, but correctly 正/疋)
Out of the 'mouth' is falling sth., when sneezing.  
HSK 6
scatter, sparse, scanty, neglect, thin, to dredge
shū
Left: 疋 (here: correct 正), right: 㐬 ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down : the child 子 comes with head first, with amniotic fluid 川)
(Declining birth rate) It is correct that newborn babies are scattered sparsely.  
HSK 6
to congeal, coagulate, to gaze/stare at sb.
níng
Left: ice 冫, right: doubt 疑 (Both persons 匕, マ with the arrow 矢 are correct 正 in their doubts.)
Ice is without doubt congealed.  
HSK 6
to revolve, a loop, a circle, whirl, return
xuán, xuàn
Left: side, direction 方, right: horizontal person , var. of correct 正. (When sleeping, one must occasionally turn to the other side to avoid pressure & bed sores & circulation problems.)
The side of the lying person is fine/correct, but he must turn.  
no HSK
beautiful jade, star
xuán
Left: king, jade 王, right: revolve 旋 (The side 方 of the lying person is okay 正, but he has to be turned [because of bed sores?])
The royal jade is revolved (= round at all sides) as: beautiful jade.  
婿
no HSK
son-in-law

Left: woman 女, right: 胥 (var. of correct/proper 正, body 月)
The woman wants a "proper body" as son-in-law.  
no HSK
all, together, mutually, assist, to store

Top: correct 正 (To stop 止 at the line 一 is correct), below: bodypart 月/肉
The correct bodies assist each-other mutually.  
no HSK
eddy
xuán
Left: water 氵, right: turn, revolve 旋 (The side 方 of the lying person is okay 正, but he has to be turned [because of bed sores?])
Water, that revolves is an eddy.  

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