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Chieh is composed of 廾 kung two hands grasping 戈 ko a spear, as if in readiness to meet an attack. The former was its old radical, but it was classed by the editors of K'ang Hsi's standard dictionary under ko.

Chih see.

Tsai is composed of 口 k'ou mouth as radical, with a common phonetic. It is a particle of exclamatory value, sometimes interrogative.

I see.

Mien see.

Li is supposed to be the picture of a muscle.