Analysis of Major Characters and Words (第二十课)

Analysis of Major Characters and Words (第二十课)

3. 化学化 (“transform” as 变化 -> “transform, change”) -> 化学 “the discipline or

studies in transformation of (substance)” -> “chemistryt”

9. 分析分 (“knife” 刀 at bottom + “broken halves” 八 on top -> “to cut into halves

with a knife” -> “sever, divide”) + 析 (to cut a “tree” 木with an “axe” 斤

-> “split”) -> “analyze”

22. 委托委 (“crops” 禾 + “woman” 女 -> “bending like the crops and submissive

like a woman”) + 托 (lift something up with a “hand” 手 [for another to

receive it]) -> “entrust, consign”

38. 能源能 (the altered form of “meat, flesh; body” 肉on the left + two “claws” on

the right -> “energy or power [as of a beast]; ability”) + 源 (“water” radical

水 on the left + “original” 原 on the right -> “origin of water”) -> “origin of

power” -> “energy resources”

42. 石油石 (“rock, stone”) + 油 (“oil”) -> “oil derived from rocks ” -> “petroleum”

48. 排放排 (the altered form of “hand” 手 + “非” on the right, resembling “two

ranks of people opposing each other” -> “exclude, eject”) + 放 (“release,

relieve” as in 放学、放假) -> “discharge; emit”