鲜花插在牛粪上

• 魚(fish)RADICAL
• 羊(goat)ASSOCIATIVE

Fresh fish and goat meat combined create an exquisitely fresh and delicious flavor.

• 艹(grass; plant)RADICAL
• 化(change; transform)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A flower is grass and trees transformed into the most brilliant and beautiful appearance.

• 扌(hand)RADICAL
• 臿(shovel; spade)PHONETIC

Using your hand to grip a plum and push it down into the earth is the action of inserting or wedging something in.

• 才(talent; ability (for sound))PHONETIC
• 土(earth; soil; land)RADICAL

To exist is to cling tightly to the patch of earth beneath your feet.

• 牛(ox (pictograph))ASSOCIATIVE

The character 牛 is a picture of a cow with two horns and a straight body standing upright.

• 米(grain; cereal)RADICAL
• 共(together; with)PHONETIC

Manure is digested food rice excreted together, combining the concepts of food and waste.

• ⺊(dot above; high position)ASSOCIATIVE
• 一(standard baseline; norm)ASSOCIATIVE

A dot mark sitting above a horizontal line represents the meaning 'above'.