Hi all !
I don’t understand the radical decompositon for the “wheat” kanji (level 5). I don’t see at all the “life” radical i the kanji.
It it just me, or is it wrong ?
Thanks for your help,
tuabiht
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Sometimes there just aren’t any radicals that fit the kanji perfectly, so they use something somewhat close. Although, in this case, it would have been possible to use 亠 and 土 instead. Not sure if that would have been easier to recognize though.
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There’s leeway with the shape of radicals.
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They do admit it in the meaning mnemonic though:
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Good point, which I missed.
The original oracle bone script version of 青, which is where this element came from, is 生 plus 丹, simplified to 青 in modern script.
So it was indeed originally a 生
It makes sense with wheat, since 生 was often used to represent plant life.
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That’s good to know - thank you for the info
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