The Chinese Radical: 豆


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Meaning
bean    豆

Explanation shows eating / sacrificial vessel with a high round base, and is also interpreted as a drum.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to be happy, to like, to enjoy, glad

From top: scholar 士, beans 豆, mouth 口. (This character has also been simplified to 吉)
A scholar with beans in his mouth is happy.  
HSK 3
short or brief, to lack, weak point, fault
duǎn
Left: arrow 矢 (= An arrow ノ in the sky 天), right: bean 豆
An arrow of the size of a bean is very short.  
HSK 4
to ascend, to mount, to step on, publish
dēng
Top: volcano 癶, bottom: beans 豆
The volcano spits beans: let's ascend it!  
HSK 4
drum, to rouse, to beat, convex

Left: 壴 (twig 十 over bean 豆 [here: image of a drum 豆 on a stand]), right: twig, support 支 (With a twig 十 in the hand 又, I am supporting)
With a twig over the drums and another in the hand, he beats the drums.  
HSK 4
kitchen
chú
Left: cliff 厂 (here: kitchen table), inside: bean 豆, skillful hand 寸
The kitchen table, at which beans are processed with skillful hands, is in: the kitchen.  
HSK 5
bean, peas, sacrificial vessel
dòu
Top: one 一, below: vessel 口 on a stand
A vessel full of beans.  
HSK 5
excellent, auspicious
jiā
Top: drum 壴 (twig 十 over a bean 豆 [here: image of a drum 豆 on a stand]), bottom: 'to add' 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat])
If a drum is added, it will be excellent.  
HSK 5
to tease (play with), to stay, to pause
dòu
Left: movement 辶, right: bean 豆
"His movements are like that of a bean", that's how you can tease.  
HSK 6
to stare at, to open (one's eyes) wide, to glare at
dèng
Left: eye 目, right: climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it)
The eyes wide open like a volcano spitting beans, when he stares at me.  
HSK 6
clear, limpid, to purify, settle (liquid)
chéng, dèng
Left: water 氵, right: climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it.)
(In dirty water, the dirt settles down, the clear part rises up:) When water is climbing, it becomes clear.  
HSK 6
to tread on, to pedal, to step on
dēng, dèng
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it)
On foot you climb: Tread by tread.  
HSK 6
orange tree, orange (color)
chéng
Left: tree 木, right: to climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it.)
The tree, you climb, is the: orange tree.  
no HSK
bench, stool
dèng
Top: climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it), bottom: table 几
(Particularly small children) can climb up this "table": a bench!  
no HSK
virtuous, admirable, esteemed, restrain

Top variation of: be happy, enjoy 喜 (A scholar 士 with beans 豆 in his mouth 口 is happy.), right: lack 次, heart 心
Who is happy without a lack of heart, is: virtuous.  
no HSK
wardrobe, closet, cabinet
chú
Left: tree 木, right: kitchen 厨 (The kitchen table 厂, at which beans 豆 are processed with skillful hands 寸, is in the kitchen.)
Its made of wood and is in the kitchen: the wardrobe.  
no HSK
to choke (on), to choke up, suffocate

Left: mouth 口, right: one (anti-fraud) 壹 (scholar 士, cover冖 & bean 豆)
If something is in the mouth and covers with wide arms (= 士) like a bean, you have to choke.  
no HSK
surname Peng
péng
Left: drum 壴 (twig 十 over bean/drum 豆), right: three hairs 彡
The one at the drum with the three sticks is: the 'Péng'.  

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