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Elementary I
Elementary II
“It reminds me of my grandpa, sitting back on his armchair in front of the radio listening to old country music.”
听
“Radical from farther (父）with a cane (卩)* *卩 means seal, so a farther but with more authority in the family.”
爷
“This reminds me of a sundial; an ancient device used to read the time based on the shadow from the sun.”
时
“The left side of the character looks like an item with a beak protruding on the right and the right side of character reminds me of the way in which we are taught to draw ducks when we were younger because we start with a 2 and that curve makes it look like a 2.”
鸭
“The character on the left looks like Wang, the sporty guy in our textbook. The character on the right looks like a ball being hit in all directions using a bat.“
球
“The box looks like a stove pot, and the four dashes/dots at the bottom of it seems like they’re little feet that are in a rush — this indicates a pot running in a hurry, which helps me remember that this relates to a clock.”
点
“People wait in line to meet with doctors (the bottom right is a part of the character for doctor) who barely have enough time to treat them all.”
候
“Almost looks like 很 but it has a foot radical so the letter after f is g because foot is below and g is below f so from hen to gen.”
跟
“Often used in “周末” (weekend), the inside part of 周 looks like a mouth (口) buried under ground (土), symbolizing the wish to disconnect and not reply to work-related communication during the weekend. The outer part (冂) looks like a shield which protects us from unwanted communication during the weekend, but only for a short period of time after which you fall down (from the disconnected bottom of 冂) into work obligations during weekdays.”
周
“The hand radical on the left and the character on the right that seems like fish bones remind me that it is difficult to get rid of the bones from the fish.”
难