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Victoria Oury
Victoria Oury
4 years ago

Two people, one walking behind the other –> following

Abby Clark
Abby Clark
4 years ago

“to follow” because it looks like one person following another person

Tara Nair
Tara Nair
4 years ago

I know that the radical used means person, and with two of these radicals, it looks like one following the other

Ariana Alvarez
Ariana Alvarez
4 years ago

I remember this character by imagining they are two people, and one is following the other. Resembling the meaning “to follow”

Nicole Cheah
Nicole Cheah
3 years ago

How I memorize this character: there are two “person” radicals in this character. It looks like one is following the other.

Hugo Obori
Hugo Obori
3 years ago

the to “person” characters look like they are following eachother

Brooklin Dozier
Brooklin Dozier
3 years ago

Looks like two people walking together, one is FOLLOWING the other.

Saffronia Traore-Rogers
Saffronia Traore-Rogers
3 years ago

it looks like one person is closely following the other, so as to not get left behind.

Saffi Ullah
Saffi Ullah
2 years ago

Someone (人) taking something FROM someone (人).Or consequently one person following the other.

Sherab Ghale
Sherab Ghale
2 years ago

It looks like one of the characters is following the other.

Mahrukh Riaz
Mahrukh Riaz
2 years ago

one person 人 following another

Ariana Fahl
Ariana Fahl
2 years ago

从 looks like two 人, one behind the other, which reminds me that you come FROM your past if you can imagine that the person in the back is past you, and the person in the front is present you.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

It looks like two people 人 人 FOLLOWING each other around.

Udval Purevsuren
Udval Purevsuren
1 year ago

It looks like two people walking.

Nomun Altan-Ochir
Nomun Altan-Ochir
1 year ago

So this character shows us 2 ‘person’ radicals. It seems to be trying to make us think that person exists because of another person. (mother and her child) FROM our childhood, we, human beings, FOLLOW our parents because they are our first role models.

Maral
Maral
1 year ago

It looks like a two standing people following each other.

Silu
Silu
1 year ago

Looks like one person following the other.

amira
amira
1 year ago

The character represents two individuals, one following the other.

Jinu Shim
Jinu Shim
1 year ago

Has two person radicals side by side.

Tu Quynh Vuu
Tu Quynh Vuu
1 year ago

The character has a person radical, and it looks like two people are walking together, and one is FOLLOWING the other.

Faiez Akmal
Faiez Akmal
1 year ago

two person radical can be a good indication for it

Jonas Ranft
Jonas Ranft
1 year ago

The smaller person on the left is walking FROM the bigger person on the right towards someone else.

Michaella Blemur
Michaella Blemur
1 year ago

There is a child behind the mom, showing that the child came ‘from’ the mom.

athena
athena
1 year ago

从 looks like two people side by side, so it goes “from” one person to another. This is how i remember it as from

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Kendi
Kendi
1 year ago

从 looks like two people (人) walking. Walking from one place to another.

School Affiliation
Duke Kunshan University
Bulat Sharafiev
Bulat Sharafiev
11 months ago

two person radicals, one of them following another

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Nghia Nim
Nghia Nim
11 months ago

A person walking behind another person is the same as following.

School Affiliation
NYU Abu Dhabi
egi
egi
11 months ago

this looks like one person is following another one

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Johanna Mueller
Johanna Mueller
11 months ago

A person following a person

Tansholpan
Tansholpan
10 months ago

It looks like two persons with legs, so they are going FROM somewhere

Student
Student
10 months ago

Because there are two ‘person’ radicals, it looks like one is ‘following’ the another.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Sondor Ts
Sondor Ts
10 months ago

It was the most simple character to memorize because you can remember it as a 2 people following each other. (从)

zere
zere
10 months ago

it looks like two people walking somewhere FROM something

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
ananya
ananya
10 months ago

Two people, they are FOLLOWING each other.

Iskander
Iskander
10 months ago

Its easy for me to remember it like two people 人人 follow each other.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Nhi Tran
Nhi Tran
10 months ago

The character looks like one person following another person.

Sangye Wangmo
Sangye Wangmo
10 months ago

this characters meaning is to follow, and to remember this meaning, you can look at the two ren shapes which looks like one is following the other

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Juan
Juan
10 months ago

In the character, there appears to be two people walking behind one another.

Viktor
Viktor
10 months ago

it looks like two people standing next too each other

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Julia Hristov
Julia Hristov
3 months ago

one person is following the other ( 从)