火山爆发指数

• 火(fire (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE

The character 火 depicts a flame bursting with fire sparks radiating out on both sides.

• 山(mountain)ASSOCIATIVE

Three mountain peaks jutting upward resemble a majestic mountain range before your eyes.

• 火(fire)RADICAL
• 暴(violent; fierce)PHONO-SEMANTIC

When fire flares up fiercely, it causes a violent explosion.

• 弓(bow; archer)RADICAL
• 癶(two legs step out)ASSOCIATIVE
• 又(right hand)ASSOCIATIVE

A hand drawing a bow with two legs stepping forward is the action of 'shooting' an arrow.

• 扌(hand; arm)RADICAL
• 旨(meaning; delicious)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Use your hand to point at what you want to say.

• 娄(many times; piled up)PHONO-SEMANTIC
• 攵(tap; hand motion)RADICAL

Counting numbers is using your hand to tap repeatedly many times in order to calculate.