动脉粥样硬化

• 云(cloud)PHONETIC
• 力(strength; power)RADICAL

Powerful strength like rolling clouds surge creates motion.

• 米(rice)RADICAL
• 弓(arch; arc (shape of rising vapor))ASSOCIATIVE

Porridge is a pot of boiling rice bubbling vigorously, with steam curving like two bows on either side.

• 木(tree; wood)RADICAL
• 羊(goat)PHONETIC

A pattern carved on wood looks like a goat standing upright.

• 石(stone; rock)RADICAL
• 更(change; firm)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Hard as stone, immovable and unchangeable.

• 亻(person; human)RADICAL
• 匕(spoon; compare)PHONETIC

A person standing upright beside a person bending down shows how shapes transform and change.