The Chinese Radical: 禺


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Meaning
Scorpion    禺

Explanation The scorpion is the insect 虫 with the stinger ム between the long hind legs 冂.

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
to leave, to part from, distant, without sth.

Top: trash can 㐫 (cover 亠 and grim 凶 [= container 凵 with dreadful 㐅 content]), below: 禸 (part of scorpion 禺)
Into the trash with the scorpion, so that it "leaves" us.  
HSK 3
to meet, to encounter, opportunity, chance

Left: movement 辶, right: scorpion 禺 (image of a scorpion: combination of a carapace 田 of the insect 虫 with long legs 冂)
(A mating/courtship ritual?) Movements of a scorpion with the opportunity to meet someone. (And then they 亻,禺 became accidentally a pair 偶.)  
HSK 4
accidental, image, pair, mate
ǒu
Left: person 人, right: scorpion 禺 (image of a scorpion: combination of a carapace 田, insect 虫 and long legs 冂)
(At first they met 遇 with movements 辶) And then the person and the scorpion became accidentally a pair.  
HSK 5
glass, colored glaze

Left: king, jade 王, right: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺, so that it "leaves" us.) [禺 = scorpion 田,禸 with hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶]
The king has a pot with scorpions that is made of glass. [Or: The "jade" of the pot with scorpions is: glass.]  
HSK 5
to reside, to imply, to contain

Top: roof 宀, below: scorpion 禺 (scorpion with carapace 田, insect 虫 with sting 厶 and long legs 冂)
Under the roof even scorpions can reside!  
HSK 6
to be stupid, to cheat or deceive, me or I (modest)

Top: 禺 (pictograph of a scorpion: Combination of 田 for carapace, insect 虫 (with sting 厶), long legs 冂), bottom: heart 心
The scorpion in its heart is: stupid.  
no HSK
Yu the Great mythical leader who tamed the floods

Top: mouth 口, bottom: 禸 or with insect 虫
Like an insect 虫 with hat 一 and wide legs 冂, that is: Yu the Great.  
no HSK
ancient area

Top: sun 日, bottom: 禸 (part of scorpion 禺)
In the explanations used as: scorpion  
no HSK
corner

Left: hill 阝, right: scorpion 禺 (pictograph of a scorpion: combination of 田 for carapace, insect 虫, long legs 冂)
On the hill, there are scorpions in every corner.  
no HSK
root of lotus
ǒu
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 耦 (tree with many branches 耒), scorpion 禺 (carapace 田, insect 虫 and long legs 冂)
The plant with the many branches at the scorpions is: the roots of lotus.  
no HSK
scorpion
xiē
Left: insect 虫, right: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.)
(For torture:) An insect for an interrogation is the scorpion.  

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