"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).

丶 character breakdown

The character 丶 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 丶 as component

good / very / very much

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A "thank you very much" card for being so good.

Everyday, Li Qingzhao (li) has been picking up the chewing gums (艮) from the ground of the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) with petal leaves (丶). One day, finally one guest approaches her and gives her a "thank you very much" card for being so good (良).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= : Two petals form a blossom, so let's represent ⺀ by a beautiful blossom.
a household / door / family

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is being attacked by a ghost (尸) with a big petal leaf (丶) on his head in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She's fighting him off using a wooden swinging door (户).

= + : Helga Horse's (hu) family (戶) is visiting her in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). For dinner, Helga prepared a ton of bananas (⺁) and a mandarin (口) on top.
see 壓根兒|压根儿[ya4 gen1 r5]
to press / to push down / to keep under (control) / pressure

= + + : Maud Younger once heard that if you apply enough pressure, one can make diamonds out of dirt. In front of the ashram, she tries this out: She puts some dirt into a chocolate factory, applies as much pressure as she can, but all that comes out are petal leaves.
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: the red cotton tree, as it is the official flower of 广州 (Guangzhou). A new river (川) formed spontaneously in front of the outhouse (ou1), and James II of England (zh) was barely able to climb on a red cotton tree (州). Other animals are happy about this development: a mean crocodile (丷) is floating on a petal leaf (丶) towards the red cotton tree.
name of an ancient tribe
foundation / on the whole

= + : Dorothy Gale pulled a petal leaf out of the space station concrete foundation. Christopher MacLeod explains her that it was a special petal leaf, and that Dorothy is destined to be the king of England now that she pulled it out.
blood / colloquial pr. [xie3] / CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: blood transfusion.

Xu Xian hurt himself and needs to get a blood transfusion in the elevator's bathroom. He found a petal leaf as donor, which is bleeding droplets into a bowl; Xu Xian gets the blood from the bowl as infusion using some tubes.
archaic variant of 節|节[jie2]: knot, node / joint / segment / link / ...

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to make the baby seals (卩) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) even cuter, so she fastens petal leaves (丶) to the ears of the seals using pretty knots (卪).
one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system
Korea

Words with 丶

丶 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 丶

丶 currently does not appear in any sentence.