Tuesday, January 20, 2015

20 Jan - 衣 - P:一 - Clothes

Word: 衣 - Clothes
Pronounced: ㄧ || Yī

Expansion
- P: ㄞ || Āi - to grieve, to mourn, to lament

At the top of clothes you have the radical . If you put the character for mouth () between the top radical and the bottom part you can build the word grieve/mourn:
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- P: ㄩㄢˊ || Yuán - the surname

Remove the radical from the top of to grieve and add the character for soil/earth you can create the surname most famously used by Yuan Shikai.
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- P: ㄩㄢˇ || Yuǎn

Add the radical for walk to the suraname and you can build the character for far away .
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