It looks like two pieces of grass coming through the ground.
Joao Vitor Lima Assumpcao
4 years ago
It resembles the grass you would see in a field. The vertical strokes represent the grass and the horizontal one the ground.
Luciana Emerson
2 years ago
I see this as the top being flowers and the bottom being the table to hold the flowers
Jinu Shim
2 years ago
Grass radical is held by a tree （大） which can be seen as a flower.
Kyle Perlman
2 years ago
It looks like a top-down view of a lawnmower about to cut grass.
Ashot Badalyan
2 years ago
if you see it as upside down it looks like a flower on grass, by that you’ll remember the character and also the radical – “grass”
A. Sav
1 year ago
Since this character makes up the word 英文 for English language, I remember that a lot of old English literature typically takes place in the English countryside.
Joshua Sim
1 year ago
If you flip it upside down it looks like a flower coming out of the grass
Sachi
1 year ago
Since this is also used as the character to write “English”, I think of it as a traditional englishman wearing his hat, standing under a flower arch.
Brenna
10 months ago
If you imagine a box on top of the character 大 and then also imagine the radical grass being the handle of the box (but the handle isn’t connected) that might be easy to remember.
It looks like two pieces of grass coming through the ground.
It resembles the grass you would see in a field. The vertical strokes represent the grass and the horizontal one the ground.
I see this as the top being flowers and the bottom being the table to hold the flowers
Grass radical is held by a tree （大） which can be seen as a flower.
It looks like a top-down view of a lawnmower about to cut grass.
if you see it as upside down it looks like a flower on grass, by that you’ll remember the character and also the radical – “grass”
Since this character makes up the word 英文 for English language, I remember that a lot of old English literature typically takes place in the English countryside.
If you flip it upside down it looks like a flower coming out of the grass
Since this is also used as the character to write “English”, I think of it as a traditional englishman wearing his hat, standing under a flower arch.
If you imagine a box on top of the character 大 and then also imagine the radical grass being the handle of the box (but the handle isn’t connected) that might be easy to remember.
Bottom part exactly looks like flower.