Hanging or trailing radical:
These radicals often depict a building, but can also mean sickness.
Example 1:
麻（ま）meaning hemp, is a combination of the radical for building + a pictograph of hemp plants hanging to dry.
Example 2:
疫（えき／やく）meaning epidemic, contains the meaning for strike within sickness.
Thus, the sickness that strikes many people in succession is an epidemic.
Note: Strike also gives the character's phonetic reading.
A semiotic-phonetic character.
These radicals often depict a building, but can also mean sickness.
Example 1:
麻（ま）meaning hemp, is a combination of the radical for building + a pictograph of hemp plants hanging to dry.
Example 2:
疫（えき／やく）meaning epidemic, contains the meaning for strike within sickness.
Thus, the sickness that strikes many people in succession is an epidemic.
Note: Strike also gives the character's phonetic reading.
A semiotic-phonetic character.
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