• ⺈(knife; variant form)
• 巴(long for; cling to; stick tight)

Beauty as sharp as a keen blade makes people stick fast and unable to look away.

• 扌(hand)
• 立(upright; erect)

Using your hand to pull someone up straight is the meaning of the character 拉.

• 爿(wooden plank; split in two)
• 夕(evening)
• 酉(jar; ferment)

Paste is something fermented and ripened in a jar through a long night.

• ⺈(knife; variant form)
• 巴(long for; cling to; stick tight)

Beauty as sharp as a keen blade makes people stick fast and unable to look away.

• 扌(hand)
• 立(upright; erect)

Using your hand to pull someone up straight is the meaning of the character 拉.

• 爿(wooden plank; split in two)
• 夕(evening)
• 酉(jar; ferment)

Paste is something fermented and ripened in a jar through a long night.