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蛙
蛙 ＝ 虫 ＋ 圭
ㄨㄚ · wā
noun — a frog
字源 FORM — what the parts do
虫義a small creature, bug or amphibian
圭聲guī — gives the soundtwo 土 stacked, an upright jade tablet
IFguī → wā — the g-initial dropped away, the vowel shifted
A small crawling creature (虫) marked by 圭 — the frog. 圭 guī, an upright jade tablet of stacked earth, carries the sound; the g fell off and the reading slid to wā. The croak it names: 蛙鳴.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
池邊一隻小蟲（虫）大的青蛙鼓起腮，「wā」地一聲叫。
At the pond's edge a frog no bigger than a bug (虫) puffs its throat and croaks — wā.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)蛙— a frog常用
→青蛙、蛙鳴— green frog; the croak of frogs
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
圭guīthe sound donor — bare it is the stacked-earth jade tablet; add and it leaps into a frog娃＝ 女 ＋ wáthe same sound frame on the human side — 娃 takes 女 for a baby, 蛙 takes for a frog