母亲节

• 母(mother; female form)ASSOCIATIVE

The character 母 depicts a kneeling woman with two dots symbolizing breasts nursing a child.

• 立(stand upright; erect)ASSOCIATIVE
• 木(wood; tree)RADICAL

A relative is someone who always stands close beside the family house, intimate as flesh and blood.

• ⺮(bamboo)RADICAL
• 即(immediately; at once)PHONETIC

Burning bamboo segments reveals the joints that connect each section of the bamboo stalk.