母系社会

• 母(mother; female form)ASSOCIATIVE

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

• 亻(person; human)RADICAL
• 系(link; bind)PHONO-SEMANTIC

People bound together create a relationship.

• 礻(spirit; ritual)RADICAL
• 土(land; earth)ASSOCIATIVE

Worshipping the earth deity is the root ritual of a community's society.

• 人(person; man; human)RADICAL
• 云(speak; cloud)PHONETIC

A meeting is when many people gather together to speak and talk.