>What I don’t know is the process in which these radicals came about.

A lot of these radicals came from hieroglyphs. The characters are usually classified into 6 categories:
1. Pictographs
2. Indicatives
3. Compound ideographs
4. Loangraphs
5. Phonographs
6. Signs

Check out this Wikipedia article for details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification

gnilma

The radical of the character can tell you what kind of word it is. For instance, 泳 and 池 are words related to water because of the three strokes on the left.

What I don’t know is the process in which these radicals came about. I just learnt the radicals by heart without bothering to find out about their history. Haha

Here’s an example of how the character for hands, 手 was used by Tokyo Hands as inspiration for its logo.

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cryotosensei

The radical of the character can tell you what kind of word it is. For instance, 泳 and 池 are words related to water because of the three strokes on the left.
I guess they resemble drops of water.
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What I don’t know is the process in which these radicals came about. I just learnt the radicals by heart without bothering to find out about their history. Haha

Here’s an example of how the character for hands, 手 was used by Tokyo Hands as inspiration for its logo.

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