TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
歹
ㄉㄞˇ · dǎi
noun/adj — bad, evil; (radical) death, bone-remnant
字源 FORM — what the parts do
歹形a stripped, cracked bone
A bone picked clean and split — the remnant of death. It stands now for bad, evil: 歹徒, 歹意. As a radical (歹/歺) it sits beside death and ruin: 死, 殘, 殉.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一根剔光、裂開的骨頭（歹）——壞到底了。
A bone stripped bare and cracked (歹) — gone bad to the root.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)殘骨— a stripped, cracked bone
→歹徒、歹意— bad, evil — a villain, ill intent常用
⇒好歹— good-or-bad — at any rate
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension