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Natural Objects (1)

Natural Objects 2 - 下

air	氣	hei3 (hay )	cloud	雲	wan4 (wun)
field	田	tin4 (teen)	fire	火	fo2 (for)
flower	花	faa1 (far)	forest	森林	sam1 lam4 (sum lum )
ground	地	dei6 (day )	ice	冰	bing1
lake	湖	wu4 (woo)	lightning / electricity	電	din6 (deen )
moon	月	jyut6 (yoot)	mountain	山	saan1 (sarn)
rain	雨	jyu5 (yue)	river	河	ho4 (hor)
sand	沙	saa1 (sah)	sea	海	hoi2
sky / heaven	天	tin1 (teen)	soil / earth	土	tou2 (toe )
star	星	sing1	stone	石	sek6
stream	川	cyun1 (choon)	sun	日	jat6 (yat )
water	水	seoi2 (soy )	wood	木	muk6 (mok)

Character Analysis (radicals)

Important radicals on these pages are:
日 - a basic radical which remains the same when in radical form - ie: it means sun or day
木 - will appear unchanged in many characters to represent being made of wood or being a plant or tree
火 - sometimes appears unchanged to represent fire or heat, but can also appear as "4 dots fire" as in 熱 (hot)
花 - the top crosses are the grass radical
河 - the left radical is actually three dots (computer fonts stylise them) and represent water. Known as "3 dots water"
田 - field appears unaltered in many characters, eg 電 has rain over a field, definitely a warning of lightning!
Also note 雲 and 電 contain the 雨 character - there are many similar examples of this in weather.