公证处

• 八(eight; split in two)RADICAL
• 厶(private; personal)ASSOCIATIVE

Public means sharing your private things with everyone to become shared property.

• 言(word; speech)RADICAL
• 登(climb; ascend)PHONETIC

Speaking up and standing before people with words confirms the truth.

• 夂(slow step; walk down slowly)RADICAL
• 卜(divination; fortune-telling)PHONETIC

A place is where people slow their steps to divine where they should stop and rest.