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Elementary I
Elementary II
“Looks like a person drawing a grill on a painting stand, the reason why they are drawing a grill is because they are a “Ke” ook and the giving a “lesson/class” on “Ke” ooking.”
课
“I remember this character because the top radical appears to be a collar and leash, When a person owns a pet, they put a collar on it to show their ownership.”
属
“The right side of the character reminds me of the 果 from 苹果 (apple), which evokes in my mind the very specific image from US cartoons of a red apple sitting on a teacher’s desk during the first day of CLASS.”
课
“The outer part means pain and the inner part looks like a 冬 (winter) character, you can think of getting sick during winter and it is very PAINFUL.”
疼
“It looks like a person next to a London phone booth super excited of calling someone.“
喂
“It has the radical as in 病 relating to a sickness, and inside you have a 羊 (different tone, 2nd) meaning sheep. So if you have a woolen sweater, it’s sometimes itchy.”
痒
“The little box on the left is a person saying “hello” to prisoners (the box with the lines are like prison bars so I imagine it as a prison with prisoners in it who the first person is saying hello to) and below the prison there is a gantic “wei”ve pushing it away.”
喂
“The three lines in the radical 羊 remind me of the marks on your body when you itch, so when you itch you get these lines.”
痒
“There is a thin witch with long air with her pot “counting people” in her pot that she‘s going to eat so she can gain “wei”ght.”
位
“I remember the bamboo radical through 算了 （forget it) so I would think of that as if you put something in the refrigerator and forget it. If you see it with your eyes (eye radical on the bottom right) later, it might be spoiled by then.”
箱