The Radical: 廾


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two hands    廾

Explanation Two hands 屮 (with the fingers towards the top) simplified and combined.

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT 3Joyo 2
calculate, count, reckon
SAN
From top: bamboo , an abacus (=calculation board), and two hands (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined)
I use the bamboo abacus with both hands to calculate and count.
JLPT 3Joyo 4
machine, device
KAI
Left: tree , right: admonish, warning (Two hands hold halberd as warning.) [ = twice this hand 屮 next to each-other and combined]
To process a tree by hand into a halberd, you need a machine.
JLPT 1Joyo 5
interest, entertain, raise, retrieve
okosu, KYŌ, KŌ
Left and right: pressing hands , ヨ like a mortar , center: same [= All containers have only one opening and that is the same.], below: table Here: seen as two turned hands grasping upwards 屮 from below. Thus four hands are shown.
All four hands have the same interest.
JLPT 1Joyo 5
dialect, speech, valve
BEN
Top: nose , bottom: two hands (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined)
If you hold the nose with both hands it sounds like a dialect.
JLPT 1Joyo 7
admonish, command
imashimeru, KAI
Left: two hands (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined), right: halberd
Two hands holding up a halberd to admonish.
JLPT 1Joyo 7
bury, funeral, interment
hōmuru,
Top & bottom: plant , middle: death (Below the earth are the bare bones of a sitting person )
Between the plants the dead are buried. (Or: Like a sunset of the dead is the: funeral.)
JLPT 1Joyo 7
evil, harmful, a bad habit, myself (humble)
HEI
Top: shabby (.. when the cloth broke into four small pieces due to strikes ), below: two hands (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers towards the top; side by side & simplified)
If the fabric is broken up into four small pieces by strikes, the two hands have caused a damage.
JLPT -Joyo 7
to tamper with, play with, fumble, juggle
moteasobu,
Top: king (here: four sticks: ,), bottom: two hands (= twice this hand 屮 with the fingers towards the top; simplified & combined)
With four sticks in the hands he is juggling or playing around.

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