部分工时

• 咅(sound reading (radical/section))PHONETIC
• 阝(village; region)RADICAL

A section of land divided by distinct sounds becomes a region's administrative division.

• 八(divide; separate; eight)ASSOCIATIVE
• 刀(knife; blade; sword)RADICAL

Using a knife to chop something in half represents division or separation.

• 日(sun; day)RADICAL
• 寸(inch; unit of measurement)PHONETIC

Time flows like the sun moving inch by inch across the sky.