麦芽糊精

• 艹(grass; plant)RADICAL
• 牙(tooth; teeth)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A sprout pushes up like a small tooth of a plant piercing through the earth.

• 米(rice; grain of rice)RADICAL
• 胡(vague; confused)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Rice porridge cooked until mushy becomes murky and turbid, hard to distinguish.

• 米(rice)RADICAL
• 青(green and pure; clear and clean)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Rice pounded clean and polished becomes pure and clear as the blue-green color of jade.