The Chinese Radical: 麻


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Meaning
hemp    麻

Explanation Since hemp is illegal, it is not stored at home, but is well hidden. So: The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
hemp or flax fiber, numb

广
Left: building 广, below: forest
In the building is (protected) a whole forest of hemp.  
JLPT HSK 5
to rub, massage, to try to figure out

Outside and top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), below: hand
(Use of hemp for cleaning) With hemp in the hand it is rubbed.  
JLPT HSK 6
devil

Outside and top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), bottom: demon (death mask [accent , field ], legs , nose >)
Hemp is a demon like the devil.  
JLPT HSK 6
to grind, polish, sharpen, wear down, waste time
mó, mò
Outside and top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), below: stone
Use hemp on the stones for polishing.  
JLPT HSK 6
modal particle indicating that sth is obvious
ma
Left: mouth , right: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp)
(Proof of drug abuse) In his mouth he still had the hemp and so it was obvious.  
JLPT no HSK
tiny, insignificant, (interrogative particle)
me, mó
Left: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), bottom: 么 (two noses )
(In contrast to cocaine: The consumption of) hemp through the noses is insignificant.  
JLPT no HSK
wasted, extravagant, go with fashion, not
mí, mǐ
Top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), below: deny (inverted wings )
(A versatile useful plant:) If the hemp is denied/refused, it is wasteful!  
JLPT no HSK
mushroom

Top: plant , bottom: to polish, sharpen 磨 (With hemp stones can be polished.)
This plant grows at the hemp and looks like a stone: the mushroom.  
JLPT no HSK
dissolved, rice-gruel, wasted

Top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), bottom: rice
(Fraud at the drug dealer?) As the (ordered) hemp was only rice, he was murdered.  

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