Learning Traditional Chinese Radical 部首10

 

In the last video, I shared the 部首 related to creatures, but the most related to us is human. So today's video, let's take a look at human.

No doubt, the first one is human 

 has two types 人、亻.
Many words use 人 as 部首, but some words' meaning is not related to human, some are related to personality, and sometimes means a person's situation, so we have
  • 他 he
  • 你you
  • 來come
 

女 

means woman, we will see dozens of words that use 女 as 部首, but for now let's remember it means woman.
  • 女兒 daughter
  • 媽 mother, 娘 also means mother, When used alone, it means mother, but when used with other words, it has other meanings, but all related to woman.
  • 奶奶 grandmother

means man or person had three types 子、孑、孓. 
But its other two types have different pronunciations, called 孑孓 means mosquito larva, I don't know why, but let's just memorize it.
Let's go back to 子, we have
  • 孩子child
  • 兒子 son
  • 孫子 grandson


Since we are talking about the word child, the next one must be parents.

父and母

父 We have three words that can refer to Father. According to the tone, we could translate them as
  • 父親 Father
  • 爹dad
  • 爸 papa
and don't forget 爺爺 grandfather

母 has two types 毌、母, they are similar in appearance but completely different.
母means mother 母親
but this word 毋 means do not, We rarely use this word these days, so don't confuse the two and write it correctly.


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