初等代数

• 衤(garment; cloth)RADICAL
• 刀(blade; cutting edge)ASSOCIATIVE

The first time you sew clothes is when you pick up a knife to cut fabric.

• ⺮(bamboo)RADICAL
• 寺(temple; pagoda)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Bamboo stalks stacked evenly in front of a temple suggest equality and waiting in order.

• 亻(person; human)RADICAL
• 弋(stake with rope; substitute)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A person standing in place of another person is substitution.

• 娄(many times; piled up)PHONO-SEMANTIC
• 攵(tap; hand motion)RADICAL

Counting numbers is using your hand to tap repeatedly many times in order to calculate.