Animals & countryside
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What the component colors mean
言
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
氵
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
生
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
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Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
Note
Example wordsAlso the counter for birds and rabbits (一羽, 二羽).
羽音
sound of wings
羽毛
feathers, down
一羽
one bird
Example words
角笛
horn (instrument)
三角
triangle
四角
square, quadrangle
Example words
鳴く
to chirp, to cry (animal)
鳴る
to sound, to ring
鳴き声
animal cry
Example words
野球
baseball
野原
field, plain
野菜
vegetables
Example words
古里
hometown
山里
mountain village
一里
one ri (~3.9 km)
Practice
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