The story of 親

Intimate, relative

親 is composed of the variant of 辛(the picture of a chisel )and 見(to see). The variant of 辛 depicts a wood being broken by a chisel, when someone chisels a wood, he need to get close and look clearly , so 親 is used to describe something close and intimate.

Vocabulary of 親

  • 親戚 (relative)
  • 親切 (intimate)

Classification

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