Radical 扌

15 strokes

hand 扌 (152a) + a time 番 (734b) = sow 播

广播 (170) guǎngbō broadcast

He has to dip his hand, time after time, into the bag as he walks up and down sowing the seeds. / The giant is finding this boring (even though he can do it in half the time it would take most people …)

beret (89a) + rice 米 (334) = claw marks 釆

This is very easy to confuse with “pick” (732a).

The palaeontologist fills his beret with rice and pours it into the fossilized claw marks to measure their volume — each claw mark takes up a whole beret-full of rice. (So it must have been quite a dinosaur!) / [No pronunciation needed]

claw marks 釆 (734a) + field 田 (156a) = a time 番

Picture huge claw marks scarring the field. They have tried time after time to catch the beast which makes them, without success. / [No pronunciation needed]