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Alexandra Kogler
Alexandra Kogler
4 years ago

The part under the radical sounds (disregarding tones) sounds “the same”. The radical is part of a lot of characters involving sickness. The character looks like a bug and when you have bugs in your hair, your scalp might feel…..

Victoria Oury
Victoria Oury
4 years ago

痒 has the radical as in 病 relating to a sickness, and inside you have a 羊 (different tone, 2nd) meaning sheep. So if you have a woolen sweater, it’s sometimes itchy.

Emily Lynn Wright
Emily Lynn Wright
4 years ago

The three lines in the radical 羊 remind me of the marks on your body when you itch, so when you itch you get these lines.

郑惠元
郑惠元
1 year ago

this character is a combination of both the “sick” radical and the Chinese character that indicates “sheep,” so since animal fur can cause you to itch, the character means ITCHY.

柄文
柄文
1 year ago

Inside the sickness radical the sheep radical almost looks like a scratch mark so it is itchy and hurting.

Jonas Ranft
Jonas Ranft
1 year ago

The character has the sickness radical; being itchy falls in that category. On the inside there is the “yang” character.

Sondor Ts
Sondor Ts
8 months ago

This one also with radical bing that indicates pain but for this it’s an itchy kind of pain so inside, under the bing radical it looks similar to letter Y with 3 scratch marks together itchy.

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egi
egi
8 months ago

the character looks like an old man trying to scratch his back

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Ari Harris
Ari Harris
8 months ago

The lines in this character remind me of the lines that are often left on your skin after itching.

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NYU Shanghai
Varya Obriadova
Varya Obriadova
8 months ago

This character consists of sharp lines and “shelter” radical. So this character reminds me of how being itchy feels like.

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Aidan Nagle
Aidan Nagle
8 months ago

The 羊 in the middle is sheep and sheep eat hay. Hay makes me itchy so therefore it is itchy.

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Nikhitha
Nikhitha
8 months ago

Yang has a Y looking letter inside the box, and the three lines can represent what itchiness feels like. Not smooth but disrupting in a way.

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Berenice Lara
Berenice Lara
6 months ago

think of a sheep that is sick.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Nomu
Nomu
1 month ago

the inside part is similar to the other character we use to show similarity, helping us remember how to pronounce this character. the outer part reminds us that whenever we get sick or feel uncomfortable, laying in layers of blanket cozying up is the best way to battle sicknesses.

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Steven Lo
Steven Lo
30 days ago

This character shares the same stroke which is the one for sickness, but what differentiates it is that it has the character for sheep under, which gives its pronunciation. Its meaning, I thought of it like: I like scratching the sheep’s fur

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