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Anubis Watal
Anubis Watal
5 years ago

When you take a really cool *photo* (照片) you say it is *fire* 🔥.

Linda Maria Tervaniemi
Linda Maria Tervaniemi
5 years ago

The first part of this character looks like “sun” and one is a box. Basically cameras are light boxes because they capture light📸

Tony Kinninger
Tony Kinninger
5 years ago

This character means camera because it has a lot of boxes and a camera is normally a square box. At the bottom, there are little strokes that resembles a flash from the camera.

Hong Lai
Hong Lai
5 years ago

The radical fire looks like when you turn on a gas stove and the flames pop up.

Hugo Obori
Hugo Obori
4 years ago

It looks like fire as the bottom radicals are like flames from the ground.

Dakota Karcz
Dakota Karcz
4 years ago

The radical for fire look like little embers that remind me of fire.

Mahrukh Riaz
Mahrukh Riaz
3 years ago

照, i remember it is the first character for photo because the first radical is ri (sun), and then li (force), kou (mouth) and huo (fire). so old cameras which were square shaped (口 mouth) used to flash (火 fire) when you pressed the button (力 force) and developed under the sun (日 sun).

Sherab Ghale
Sherab Ghale
3 years ago

It looks like two square boxes placed horizontally and a capital ‘F’ facing downwards above a rectangular box. Finally, there is a fire radical at the bottom.

Anna Jedrzejewska
Anna Jedrzejewska
3 years ago

This character looks like a bonfire with larger flame and protection from conflagration at the top. Reminds me of campfires where class meetings were held. 🙂

Miriyam Kuanysh
Miriyam Kuanysh
3 years ago

The character looks like the sun, and the bottom part of the character resembles flames.

Rebecca Sui
Rebecca Sui
3 years ago

The bottom part of the character looks like fire coming out.

Ariel Spencer
Ariel Spencer
3 years ago

The top portion looks like people on a dock and the little lines are their lines that they casted.

Danial Tajwer
Danial Tajwer
2 years ago

The two main components that stick out to me are the knife and the sun, so I get the mental image of the knife cutting the light, just like the refraction of light that happens when a picture is taken.

Luciana Emerson
Luciana Emerson
2 years ago

The bottom portion looks like a fire pit

Emily Tran
Emily Tran
1 year ago

You hang picture frames on the wall so the “window” is on the left, the “curtain” is on the top right, the “picture” is on the bottom right, and the “rays of sunshine” are on the bottom of 照

Linh Hoang
Linh Hoang
1 year ago

照 (to cast) is when the sun uses power (力) to create fire

Deron Nguyen
Deron Nguyen
11 months ago

I imagine the bottom part of the character (the fire radical) as flash, needed to take pictures.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Bianca
Bianca
4 months ago

(which looks like a camera on a tripod with four legs) beside 片 (which looks like a person posing) looks like a person posing in front of a camera (照片 – photo).

School Affiliation
NYU Abu Dhabi
jose luis
jose luis
4 months ago

The left side is a window, the right side is like “pi” that is being cooked in a pan and below everything is the fire of the stove

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai