The Japanese Radical: 厂


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Meaning
cliff    厂

Explanation The Radical gandare stands for cliff. Sometimes it is understood as a shield, like in 盾.

Used in these characters:
JLPT 3Joyo 1
stone, rock
ishi, SEKI, SHAKU
Top: var. of cliff 厂, bottom: stone 口
Below the cliff are stones.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
origin, field, a plain
hara, GEN
Top: cliff 厂, below: variation of spring 泉 (white 白 and small 小 instead of water 水)
Under the cliff, the small spring has its origin.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
coast, shore
kishi, GAN
From top: mountain 山, a cliff 厂 and dry 干 (Image of drying stand)
Mountains and cliffs define the dry coast.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
charcoal, coal
sumi, TAN
Top: mountain 山, bottom: ashes 灰 (If sth. "cliff 厂"-like covers the fire 火, it is the ashes.) (To make charcoal, wood is piled up mountain-like and covered and lit from the inside)
This mountain of covered fire produces the charcoal.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
anti-, against, opposition
soru, HAN, TAN
Left: cliff 厂, right: hand 又
Climbing the cliff by hands only: I am against it.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
slope, hill
saka, HAN
Left: earth 土, right: opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing!)
The earth opposes to be a slope or hill. (It likes to distribute flatly.)  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
board, sheet, panel
ita, HAN, BAN
Left: tree 木, right: opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing!)
The tree is opposing against becoming a board.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
return, replace
kaesu/ru, HEN
Left: movement 辶, right: against/opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing!)
A movement into the 'opposite' means to return.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
wish, hope, request
negau, GAN
Left: origin, plain 原 (Under the cliff 厂 a white 白 small 小 spring 泉 has its origin), right: head, forehead 頁
The origin is in the head of your: wishes and hopes.  
JLPT 4Joyo 4
give birth to, produce
umu, SAN
From top: to stand 立, cliff 厂 and life 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant stands for life.)
She is standing on the cliff and gives life: She gives birth.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
history, calendar, curriculum, flow of time
REKI
From top: cliff 厂, wood 林, stop 止 [止= Footprint of the right foot rotated 90° to the left.]
At the cliff with the wood where we stopped, history was made.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
pressure, overpressure
ATSU
Cliff 厂 and earth 土
A cliff with its earth causes a pressure.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
temporary, false, interim, sham
kari, KA, KE
Left: person 亻/人, right: against 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing)
The person is against it, but only temporarily.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
thick, heavy, goodness
atsui,
From top: cliff 厂, sun 日, child 子
Under the cliff in the sun there is a child that is fat and heavy.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
equipment, prepare, possess
sonaeru/waru, BI
Left: person 亻/人, right: plant 艹, cliff 广, use 用
The person picks up plants from the cliff for use as equipment.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
ashes
hai, KAI
Left: cliff 厂, below: fire 火
If something is "cliff"-like over the fire, it is the ashes.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
dangerous
abunai, ayaui, KI
Top: bent person ⺈, below: unlucky 厄 (cliff 厂, slumped person 㔾)
The bent person on the cliff can (by falling) turn into a slumped person: That is the danger.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
source, origin, beginning
minamoto, GEN
Left: water 氵, right: origin/plain 原 (Under the cliff 厂 the white 白 small 小 spring 泉 has its origin in the plain)
The water in the plain comes from a source.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
strict, severe, grave
kibishii, ogosoka, GEN, GON
From top: rays of light , cliff 厂, daring 敢 (One 一 [person's] ear 耳 was stroke 攵: How daring!)
At this light on the cliff? Too daring, there I have to be strict.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
limits, boundary, shore, horizon
hate, GAI
From left: water 氵, right: precipice 厓 (cliff 厂 of piled/cumulated earth 圭 [= 2x earth 土])
Water, a cliff, or piles of earth can (each) be a limit.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
shield, resist, disobey, defiantly, escutcheon
tate, JUN
Left: shield 厂, right: ten 十, eye 目
A shield with 10 eyes as the symbol for: 'shield' and to resist.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
sequential, follow, circulate
JUN
Left: go 彳, right: shield 盾 (a shield 厂 with ten 十 eyes 目)
(For a better protection:) If you go under a shield, go sequentially or follow a circulation.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
in sequence, relay, communication, gradually
TEI
Left: movement 辶, right: shield 厂, two 二 cloth 巾
Move the shield and then two layers of cloth, that's the sequence.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
marketing, sell, trade
HAN
Left: shell/money 貝, right: against, opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing)
Money (= the price) is an antagonist to marketing.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
misfortune, unlucky, mishap, disaster
YAKU
Left: cliff 厂, right: crouching person 㔾
(It was dangerous 危 for that person ⺈ on a cliff 厂. But now:) Under the cliff crouches the person (which has fallen down) because he had a misfortune and is unhappy.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
tiny amount
RIN
Left: cliff 厂, below: village 里 (Both fields 田 and earth 土 belong to a village)
Below the cliff, the village appears: tiny.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
encourage, strive. be diligent
hagemu/masu, REI
Left: 厉 (cliff 厂, 10,000 万), right: strength/effort 力
A cliff exuding ten-thousend-fold strength is encouraging.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
calendar, almanac
koyomi, REKI
Outside: cliff 厂, below: forest 林, sun 日 [cf. hemp 麻]
A cliff with a forest in the sun: a picture for a calendar.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
cliff, steep precipice
gake, GAI
Top: mountain 山, bottom: precipice 厓 (cliff 厂 of heaps of soil 圭/土)
A mountain of piled earth like a cliff, is a cliff/precipice.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
horse chestnut
tochi,
From left: tree 木, cliff 厂, ten thousand 万
The tree on the cliff carries ten thousand horse chestnuts.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
hill, heights, slope, incline
HAN
Left: hill 阝, right: opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing!) (cf.坂)
The hill has opposition, because it is a hill.  

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