列王记上

• 歹(bones; death)ASSOCIATIVE
• 刂(blade; knife edge)RADICAL

Using a knife to chop bones into rows is the meaning of the character for arranging in lines.

• 王(king; sovereign (represented as three realms—heaven, humanity, earth—connected by a vertical line))ASSOCIATIVE

A king is the only person who connects all three levels: heaven, people, and earth.

• 言(word; speech)RADICAL
• 己(self; body)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Use words to record and preserve your own thoughts and affairs.

• ⺊(dot above; high position)ASSOCIATIVE
• 一(standard baseline; norm)ASSOCIATIVE

A dot mark sitting above a horizontal line represents the meaning 'above'.