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• 卩(kneeling person)RADICAL
• 𠤎(bowl of rice full (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE

A person kneeling and bowing down to a full bowl of rice depicts the image of immediate approach.

• 日(sun; day)RADICAL
• 寸(inch; unit of measurement)PHONETIC

Time flows like the sun moving inch by inch across the sky.

• 氵(water; liquid)RADICAL
• 肖(resembling; diminishing)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Water gradually drips away and disappears, that is the meaning of the character tiêu.