库木吐拉千佛洞

• 广(roof; spacious house)RADICAL
• 车(vehicle; cart; wheel)ASSOCIATIVE

A spacious house filled with vehicles is exactly a warehouse for storing goods.

• 口(mouth; opening)RADICAL
• 土(earth; soil; ground; land)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A mouth spewing out like earth being pushed up is the action of spitting out.

• 扌(hand)RADICAL
• 立(upright; erect)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Using your hand to pull someone up straight is the meaning of the character 拉.

• 丿(stroke; expansion; many)ASSOCIATIVE
• 十(ten)ASSOCIATIVE

Ten multiplied many times becomes a thousand — the stroke above the number ten symbolizes an enormous quantity.

• 亻(person; human)RADICAL
• 弗(not; not at all)PHONETIC

A Buddha is a person who has transcended all worldly constraints.

• 氵(water; liquid)RADICAL
• 同(together; mutually)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A cave is a place where water flows through and connects all the way through.