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Elena Saravia Garza
Elena Saravia Garza
5 years ago

It looks like a pair of arms and a torso.

Gloria Tsang
Gloria Tsang
4 years ago

It’s a person with long hair! And the person is used as a measuring unit

Derek Eng
Derek Eng
4 years ago

The top is a person and the bottom looks like the number 1 so it’s like number and person

Charlotte LaGasse
Charlotte LaGasse
4 years ago

It is a simple character to write, which is good because it has to be used often as a measure word.

Sherab Ghale
Sherab Ghale
3 years ago

It looks like an upward facing arrow.

Miriyam Kuanysh
Miriyam Kuanysh
3 years ago

The character looks like number 1 = one person.

Harsh Tambi
Harsh Tambi
3 years ago

This character resembles an upside-facing arrow and hence it becomes very easy to memorize this character. Also the person radical looks very similar to a person standing upright which further makes it easier for me to understand the meaning of this character

Suhana Kassam
Suhana Kassam
2 years ago

the top part can look like its opens towards the bottom part in a way that its looking at a stick to count the amount of sticks, which implies it is a measuring word

Luciana Emerson
Luciana Emerson
2 years ago

Reminds me of a hand grabbing a ruler to measure with.

Jinu Shim
Jinu Shim
2 years ago

The character looks like a “bigger than” sign with a number 1 on it.

Kyle Perlman
Kyle Perlman
2 years ago

It looks like an arrow pointing to something, and people often point to things they are measuring.

Tu Quynh Vuu
Tu Quynh Vuu
2 years ago

The character looks like someone wearing a hat. We could think of it as how many people also wear hats, to represent the measure unit.

Jonas Ranft
Jonas Ranft
2 years ago

The top looks like “ren,” the bottom like someone counting from one. We are counting the number of people there is.

Anna
Anna
1 year ago

This character looks like a doubled person radical

Ziyad
Ziyad
1 year ago

It looks like a finger in the middle of counting a stack of cash.

VIktor
VIktor
1 year ago

it is like a stick with a roof on top.

shahd
shahd
11 months ago

I try to think of it as an arrow that goes up so it relates to numbers. which relate to measurements

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Brenna
Brenna
4 months ago

It would be good to imagine the person radical having another diagonal line partner, and because they want to be friends, the two diagonal lines on the top share the one vertical line by putting the vertical line in the center.

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dianna
dianna
4 months ago

It looks like a tree — 1 tree = 1 person hahah

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Syed Muhammad Ali Naqvi
Syed Muhammad Ali Naqvi
4 months ago

It looks a scale balance to “measure” the difference, thus it is a measure word.

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Karimjon Olimjonov
Karimjon Olimjonov
4 months ago

one person is wearing the umbrella

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