五行 Five Phases
金 Gold or Metal
木 Wood
水 Water
火 Fire
土 Soil or Earth
We know that English words are made up of prefixes字首, roots字根, and suffixes字尾, and we can see the meaning of words through them.
In Traditional Chinese, we also have 部首 to know the connotation of words.
According to 《康熙字典》, we have 214 部首, but I don't think need to learn them all, because some of the radicals are classified according to their shape so that they do not have the same connotation.
As a result, you only need to know the 部首 that have meaning and can help you understand the word better. so I will share the common 部首 with you.
Now, Let start with 五行(Five Phases)
五行is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many Traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, they are 金 Gold or Metal, 木 Wood, 水 Water, 火 Fire, 土 Soil or Earth . But we are not talking about philosophy today, so let's go back to 部首.
Note that some of them have different shapes but the same connotation.
金
金 as a 部首 will be related to money or metal.- 錢money
- 金屬metal：金go
- ld、銀silver、鐵iron
You could see that they all have 金 aside
木
木 is wood
- one木 is木頭
- If you have five 木, you get 森林 forest
- and we also have 樹tree
- The things are made of wood is 桌 table and 椅 chair
水
There are two forms of 水.
- this form of 水 have 溪stream、河river、海ocean
- the word 游泳swim and 泡泡bubble also have 水
火
火 have two forms too
- This type we have 燒
- This one we have 煮
土
final one is 土
we have 城市city and 土地land
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