The Chinese Radical: 聿




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Meaning
writing brush    聿

Explanation Shows hand with a pen 丨, when two lines 二 to write.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
book, letter, document
shū
This character was simplified from 書. It formerly showed a brush 聿 (hand with a pen 丨), which writes lines 一 on a paper 口.
With a brush in my hand I write the lines in the book.  
HSK 3
healthy, to be good at, to invigorate, strong, robust
jiàn
Left: person 亻, right: building/construction 建 (You have a brush 聿 in your hand and need to move 廴 for building)
A person who builds must be healthy and robust.  
HSK 4
law

Left: go 彳, right: writing 聿 (hand with pen 丨 writes two lines 二.)
Go and write down the law.  
HSK 4
to build, to construct, to establish
jiàn
Left: movement 廴, right: to write, writing brush 聿
You need a brush in your hand and to move for building.  
HSK 4
bond (chemistry), (door lock) key, key(keyboard)
jiàn
Left: metal 钅/金, right: build/erect 建 (You have a brush 聿 in your hand and need to move 廴 for building.)
The 'metal' in building can be a bond or key.  
HSK 5
respectful, solemn, to eliminate, clean up

Variation of to write 聿 (hand with pen 丨 writes two lines 二) - Consider the difference to: servant 隶
When drawing four lines vertically, you might be very respectful?  
HSK 6
a ferry crossing, port, saliva
jīn
Left: water 氵, right: to write 聿 (Here: Hand with stick 丨 poking into the water 二 to measure the depth)
In water, use a stick to measure depth of water at the ferry crossing.  
HSK 6
four (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Left: 镸 variation of long 长/長 (long hair/mane in the wind), right: write 聿 (Shows hand with a pen 丨 writes two lines 二)
This is tong form for writing the anti-fraud four. [1 to 10 are: 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖拾]  
no HSK
the start, the origin, at first, devise, originate
zhào
Top: sliding door 戶, strike 攵 (hand 又 with a stick 卜), below: to write 聿 (hand with a pen 丨 writes two lines 二)
(The author of a novella) The sliding door is slammed. When he wrote it down, it was (from the story) the: Beginning.  
no HSK
to write, writing brush, pencil


Shows a hand with a pen 丨, when two lines 二 are written.  

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