无线电接收机

• 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!

• 扌(hand; arm)RADICAL
• 妾(concubine; intimate)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Using your hand to welcome a secondary wife coming home illustrates the idea of receiving.

• 丩(coil up; bind; tie)ASSOCIATIVE
• 攵(hand; wield stick; action)RADICAL

A hand holding a stick binding things together — that is the action of seizing and gathering.