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Nêng see.

Shou see.

Hu is a picture of a leaf of the 門 mên double door in use all over China. See.

Mei is composed of 日 jih sun as radical, with 未 wei negation as phonetic. Or the character may be regarded as an ideogram,—the negation of light.

T'ien see. Here natural, as opposed to 人 jen artificial.

Liang is composed of a corruption of an obsolete word 畗 fu full, its old radical, with 亡 wang as phonetic. It is now classed under radical 艮 kên a limit.

T'u is composed of 尸 shih corpse as radical, with 者 chê (or chu) as phonetic.

Shih is composed, under its old form, of 冂 chiung boundary, enclosure, as radical, with 及 chi to arrive (q.d. goods arriving at an enclosed space), with 之 chih abbreviated as phonetic. It is now classed under radical 巾 chin a towel.

Ssŭ see.

Chieh see.