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body
a side profile of a pregnant woman's body |
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lie down
pregnant woman/body (shen) + reverence (shang)
a pregnant woman who deserves to be revered and respected gets to lie down |
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shoot
pregnant woman/body (shen) + hand/joint (cun)
the hand draws the bow back, curving it like a body of a pregnant woman, ready for shooting |
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thank
word (yan) + shoot (she)
a word of thanks has to be aimed well, like an arrow shot at a target |
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heart
in other characters it symbolizes emotion or characteristics |
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think
head/fontanel (xin) + heart (xin)
when the head works alongside the heart - one thinks |
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think
each other (xiang) + heart (xin)
to think - with a full heart - about each other |
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die
a person who usually stands up straight is considered hunched over and dead |
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forget
die (wang) + heart (xin)
memories of a dead loved one breaks the heart, so it is best to forget |
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rest
self/nose (zi) + heart (xin)
everything rests but the nose and heart |
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must
heart (xin) + line (pie)
a secret buried deep within one's heart must be kept |
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heart
alternative character; it takes this shape when used as a RADICAL placed on the left of a character |
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nature
heart(xin) + be born (sheng)
something that comes out of one's heart is its nature |
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quick; pleased
heart(xin) + open (guai)
a pleased heart opens up quickly |
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Man; insult
long-drawn-out
hood (mao) + eye (mu) + hand/again (you) |
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slow, sluggish; rude
heart(xin) + long-drawn-out (man)
a lazy heart takes a long time to wake up slowly |
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bone
bones with meat are still bones;
'gua' means bones without the surrounding meat |
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slippery
water (shui) + bone (gu)
water on the bone means the meat is oily - and oily bones are slippery |
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body
person (ren) + root (ben)
the root of a person is his healthy body |
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bad, wicked
broken bones with no flesh;
alongside another character it means 'death' & 'disaster' |
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die
broken bone/bad (dai) + old-person/ladle (bi)
broken bones on an old man means that he will die |
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arrange
dead/bad (dai) + knife (dao)
take a knife to cut up a dead animal to arrange the meat |
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example
person (ren) + arrange (lie)
a senior gives example on how to cut up and arrange pieces of carcass |
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