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• 丷(two dots symbolizing hair)ASSOCIATIVE
• 自(face; nose)ASSOCIATIVE

A head is drawn as hair on top and a face below—a pictographic image of a human head.

• 冫(water; cold)RADICAL
• 欠(open-mouthed; lacking)ASSOCIATIVE

An open mouth breathing out cold air suggests the sequential order and gradual progression of one thing after another.

• 氵(water; liquid)RADICAL
• 主(master; center)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Water concentrated at one central point is the meaning of the character 注.

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

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

• 門(door; leaf)RADICAL
• 日(sun; light)ASSOCIATIVE

A beam of sunlight shining through a crack in the door creates the empty space in between.