Chinese Quadruple Radicals Provide New Insight Into the Meaning of Singular Words
By Jennifer Ball and Maggie Li (李琪)
Quadruple radicals are not common, but they do give a sense of what one character means if increased four times. Consequently, if X = n, then 4X = 4n. Therefore, we have a better sense about what a character means when its effect is replicated four times. (For Triple Radicals, go here: Triple Radicals.) For example, four mouths mean “noise” or “public opinion,” but if three of those mouths are contained as a unit, it means “vomit, annoy, enrage.”
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灬 |
fire; radical number 86 (semantic variant |
biao1, huo3, zai1 |
“fire dots” or “four-dots fire” |
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concerned about, anxious, worried (same as |
yu2 |
man, person |
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㸚 |
scattered or dispersed and clear, to stop, to detain, a connection, lineage |
li3 |
cross (govern, control, manage; nurture) |
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叕 |
to connect |
zhuo2 |
and, also, again, in addition |
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sip, suck up; sob, weep |
chuo4 |
mouth (orifice) + connect |
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畷 |
raised path between fields |
chuo4, zhuo2 |
field + connect |
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to mend |
duo2, duo1 |
clothes + connect |
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塽 |
plateau |
shuǎng |
criss cross + earth + big |
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(unknown) |
liu4 |
sun |
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(unknown) |
(unknown) |
sun |
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朤 |
bright |
lang3 |
moon |
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燚 |
fire appearance |
yi4, (yi1?) |
fire |
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㵘 |
great currents |
man4 |
water |
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㗊 |
public opinion; clamour; noise, (ancient form of |
ji2, qi4, bi1, lei2 |
mouth (orifice) |
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嘔 |
vomit, annoy, enrage |
ou3 |
This says, “Make the sound of three mouths.” |
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噐 |
receptacle, vessel, instrument |
qi4 |
mouth (orifice) + work |
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噐 |
receptacle, vessel, instrument |
qi4 |
mouth (orifice) + dog |
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嚻 |
be noisy, treat with contempt |
xiao1 |
mouth (orifice) + head (page) |
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㠭 |
to open, to stretch; to extend, to unfold; to dilate; to prolong (to work it?) |
zhan3, zhan4 |
work |
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㞡 |
(same as 嵐) to open, to stretch, to unfold, to expand |
zhan3 |
work + corpse (bottom) + lower half of clothes |
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(unknown) |
qun2 |
cow/bull |
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(unknown) |
(unknown) |
tree |
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thunder (from , ) |
lei2 |
field |
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㙓 |
earth; land; soil; ground; territory, opium |
kui2 |
earth, dirt |
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(unknown) |
bao3 |
gold |
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nag (related to 讋 “fear; envy; loquacious”) |
zhe2 |
dragon |
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䲜 |
lots of fish |
ye4 |
fish |
Sources:
http://www.zybang.com/question/c616f164492f46e6186b45ba18d86b54.htm
http://wenwen.soso.com/z/q72827090.htm (translated via Google webpage translation)
http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en
http://www.cojak.org/index.php?function=about
McNaughton, William and Li Ying. Reading and writing Chinese: a guide to the Chinese writing system, the student’s 1,020 list, the official 2,000 list. Ruttland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1999.
