配种季节

• 酉(wine vessel; alcohol container)RADICAL
• 己(self; oneself)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Blending ingredients like pouring and mixing alcohol yourself to get the right balance.

• 禾(rice plant)RADICAL
• 中(in the middle; hit; strike)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Scattering rice seeds down the middle of a furrow is the action of sowing.

• 禾(rice plant)ASSOCIATIVE
• 子(child; seed)RADICAL

In the final season of the year when rice ripens, a child harvests the seeds—that is a season.

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

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