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ladle; spoon
it means spoon, but is more used to mean 'person' |
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to compare; ratio
person/spoon (bi) + person/spoon (bi)
two men standing together, comparing each other's ratio of measures |
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criticize/comment
batch, wholesale
to slap;
hand (shou) + compare (bi)
two persons are comparing the strength of their hands by slapping each other while commenting and criticizing each other's techniques |
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north, northward
person/spoon (bi) + person/spoon (bi)
two back-to-back figures representing 'to flee' or 'to be defeated' and the defeated army would flee toward the cold inhospitable north |
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to ride; to take advantage of;
multiplication
tree (mu) + person/spoon (bi) + person/spoon (bi)
two people riding on a wooden cart |
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surplus, remnant / remain, be leftover
ride (cheng) + knife (dao)
to build a ride like a cart one needs a knife to cut off unwanted parts - the leftovers |
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it, other;
snake, serpent
house (mian) + old person/spoon/ladder (bi)
to avoid directly naming dangerous creatures, 它 (a snake under a roof) became a euphemistic pronoun for "it" for the sake of a taboo avoidance |
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to change/convert
-ify, -ization, -ize
person [ren] + dagger/spoon (bi)
a prisoner takes time to sharpen a spoon to transform and change it into a knife |
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flower, blossom
to spend (money, time)
grass [cao] + change (hua)
grass changes to flower by spending a lot of time under the sun |
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bad, evil, wicked
a corpse with broken bone; it is derived from 死 (death);
a corpse with broken bone; it is derived from 死 (death);
"Bad Moon" on the rise |
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die
broken bone/bad + old person/spoon/dagger (bi)
an old man with broken bones will surely die;
a bad dagger means somebody will die |
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this, these
stop (zhi) + old person/spoon (bi)
此 encodes physical grounding (止 = foot) + pointing (匕) with a ladder, mirroring how humans naturally indicate "this" by stopping and gesturing |
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some, a few/little
this (ci) + two (er)
two of this or, some of this plus a few of these |
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