Chinese Quadruple Radicals or quadruple characters By Jennifer Ball and Maggie Li (李琪)
Meaning Pronunciation Sinograph
灬 𠈌 㸚 叕 啜 畷 裰 塽 𣊫 𪱈 朤 燚
Singular Meaning
fire; radical number 86 (seman-
biao1, huo3, zai1
“fire dots” or “four-dots fire”
concerned about, anxious, worried (same as 虞, 吳 - name of warring state; surname)
yu2
man, person
scattered or dispersed and clear, to stop, to detain, a connection, lineage
li3
cross (govern, control, manage; nurture)
to connect
zhuo2
and, also, again, in addition
sip, suck up; sob, weep
chuo4
mouth (orifice) + connect
raised path between fields
chuo4, zhuo2
field + connect
to mend
duo2, duo1
clothes + connect
plateau
shuǎng
criss cross + earth + big
someone now
liu4
sun
(unknown)
(unknown)
sun
bright
lang3
moon
fire appearance
yi4, (yi1?)
fire
tic variant 火, 𤆄)
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Sinograph Meaning Pronunciation
㵘 㗊 嘔 噐 器 嚻 㠭 㞡 𤛭 𣛧 𤳳
great currents
man4
public opinion; clamour; noise, ji2, qi4, bi1, lei2 (ancient form of 雷); thunder, an organic compound (porphin); (porphyrins)
Singular Meaning water mouth (orifice)
vomit, annoy, enrage
ou3
This says, “Make the sound of three mouths.”
receptacle, vessel, instrument
qi4
mouth (orifice) + work
receptacle, vessel, instrument
qi4
mouth (orifice) + dog
be noisy, treat with contempt
xiao1
mouth (orifice) + head (page)
to open, to stretch; to extend, to unfold; to dilate; to prolong (to work it?) (same as 展) to open, to stretch, to unfold, to expand
zhan3, zhan4
work
zhan3
work + corpse (bottom) + lower half of clothes
(unknown)
qun2
cow/bull
(unknown)
(unknown)
tree
thunder (from 雷, related characters: 𤴐 𩇓, 𤴑)
lei2
field
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Meaning Pronunciation Sinograph
㙓 𨰻 𪚥
䲜
Singular Meaning
earth; land; soil; ground; territory, opium
kui2
earth, dirt
(unknown)
bao3
gold
nag (related to 讋 “fear; envy; loquacious”)
zhe2
dragon
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://www.zdic.net/ http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en http://www.cojak.org/index.php?function=about www.sayjack.com http://www.chinese-tools.com http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki http://www.mandarintools.com/ 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. http://www.iguci.cn/dictionary/l http://www.chineseetymology.org
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