TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
村
ㄘㄨㄣ · cūn
noun — village
字源 FORM — what the parts do
Tcùn → cūn — only the tone bends
Trees (木) with 寸 cùn for sound, the tone bent — houses among the trees, a village. The word was first written 邨, with the town radical 阝; the tree version replaced it.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
天快黑，遠遠一片樹（木）裡升起炊煙——到村子了。
Near dark, smoke rises out of a distant stand of trees (木) — the village.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)村子、村莊— a village常用
→農村、鄉村— the countryside
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension