无线电广播

• 一(one; initial)ASSOCIATIVE
• 尢(disabled person; insufficient)ASSOCIATIVE

From the beginning there was a shortage, so 無 means 'nothing at all'.

• 糸(thread; silk)RADICAL
• 泉(stream; water)PHONETIC

A thin thread flows like a small stream running long and continuously.

• 曰(speak; bright cloud)ASSOCIATIVE
• 乚(lightning bolt; hook stroke (downward))ASSOCIATIVE

A flash of lightning bursts bright through the clouds—that is electricity itself!

• 广(roof; shelter against cliff)ASSOCIATIVE

A roof leaning against a cliff provides shelter from rain and sun for people inside.

• 扌(hand)RADICAL
• 番(alternate; scatter)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Using your hand to sow seeds alternately across the fields is sowing.