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Nina Ruffolo
Nina Ruffolo
5 years ago

The character’s radical is ‘wood’ and so you can think of the pencil/pen being thin like a branch.

Hugo Obori
Hugo Obori
4 years ago

The radical is wood and branches are made out of thin wood.

Nawaf Alotaishan
Nawaf Alotaishan
4 years ago

Looks like a fountain pen and an ink well

Derek Eng
Derek Eng
4 years ago

the tree radical makes me think of tree branches, which use the measure word zhi

Kashif Iftikhar
Kashif Iftikhar
3 years ago

Two dancers. The first one static while the other revolving.

Rudy Bhukhanwala
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
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.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Deron Nguyen
Deron Nguyen
9 months ago

wood with a branch next to it

Nurbol Ibrai
Nurbol Ibrai
2 months ago

Tree with many branches

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NYU Shanghai
Howland Cui
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!

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NYU Shanghai
Kassidy
Kassidy
2 months ago

The radical 木, meaning “tree” or “wood,” looks like the trunk and branches of a tree

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NYU Shanghai
Bianca
Bianca
1 month ago

The left part of the character looks like a pencil and a pencil holder.