The character’s radical is ‘wood’ and so you can think of the pencil/pen being thin like a branch.
Hugo Obori
4 years ago
The radical is wood and branches are made out of thin wood.
Nawaf Alotaishan
4 years ago
Looks like a fountain pen and an ink well
Derek Eng
4 years ago
the tree radical makes me think of tree branches, which use the measure word zhi
Kashif Iftikhar
3 years ago
Two dancers. The first one static while the other revolving.
Rudy Bhukhanwala
2 years ago
The left part of the character is the radical wood and the top of the right part of the character looks like a plus sign, meaning that there are multiple pieces of wood, thus the character means branches.
Ziyad
1 year ago
The left part is a tree, and the right part is a hand breaking off branches from the tree and counting them.
School Affiliation
NYU Abu Dhabi
Deron Nguyen
9 months ago
wood with a branch next to it
Nurbol Ibrai
2 months ago
Tree with many branches
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Howland Cui
2 months ago
Think of 枝 as a small part growing off a tree (木). The tree (木) gives you the clue that 枝 is part of it like a branch!
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Kassidy
2 months ago
The radical 木, meaning “tree” or “wood,” looks like the trunk and branches of a tree
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Bianca
1 month ago
The left part of the character looks like a pencil and a pencil holder.
The character’s radical is ‘wood’ and so you can think of the pencil/pen being thin like a branch.
The radical is wood and branches are made out of thin wood.
Looks like a fountain pen and an ink well
the tree radical makes me think of tree branches, which use the measure word zhi
Two dancers. The first one static while the other revolving.
The left part of the character is the radical wood and the top of the right part of the character looks like a plus sign, meaning that there are multiple pieces of wood, thus the character means branches.
The left part is a tree, and the right part is a hand breaking off branches from the tree and counting them.
wood with a branch next to it
Tree with many branches
Think of 枝 as a small part growing off a tree (木). The tree (木) gives you the clue that 枝 is part of it like a branch!
The radical 木, meaning “tree” or “wood,” looks like the trunk and branches of a tree
The left part of the character looks like a pencil and a pencil holder.