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woman
a woman sitting with here hands on her knees |
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peace, safe, calm
house [mian] + woman (nu)
A woman sitting contentedly under a roof, sheltered from storms - the essence of peace and safety |
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feast, banquet
house [mian] + day/sun [ri] + woman (nu)
a house with warm lights and ladies is a place for a feast |
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good, well
woman (nu) + child (zi)
a mother cradling her child is the ultimate "good" in traditional Chinese values |
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good
it is good (dot!) to be tough, firm, stable
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young lady
woman (nu) + good (liang)
good time in a woman's life is as young lady; it is honorific character when addressing older lady like mother |
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thus, therefore, then, so
air exhaled slowly and deliberately in a sigh, as an overture to a sequential connection: "So,...", or "...,then..." |
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milk; grandma;
breast, to breastfeed
woman (nu) + so (nai)
I see a woman, so, she has breasts; therefore, she provides MILK; then she becomes grandma |
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(once) again
right handed
when part of a other character, it means hand |
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slave, servant;
to enslave
woman (nu) + hand/again (you)
a kneeling woman gripped by man's hand was the brutal reality of ancient slavery |
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force, power, strength
picture of a plow or tendon, implying strength |
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to strive,
to exert effort
slave (nu) + plow/power (li)
a woman slave is forced to build her muscle-power while striving to be more efficient in a man's job with a plow |
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like, as, if
woman (nu) + mouth (kou)
a woman, following the spoken words from her father or husband like they are coming from her own mouth, is the origin of compliance and analogy |
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bitter, spicy; laborious
an awl (šilo - za bušenje rupa u koži) for making marks of punishment |
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concubine
awl/pain (xin) + woman (nu)
to use an awl to "brand" a woman thus forcing her into servitude as a slave or a concubine |
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connect; receive
hand (nu) + concubine (qie)
to offer a hand to a concubine, so that he connects with her, or to receive her servitude |
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entrust, appoint
rice plant/grain (he) + woman (nu)
a bending woman cares for bending grains so she should be entrusted with cereals |
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arrow, dart
a man holding an arrow |
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short, low
arrow (shi) + entrust (wei)
during grain-wars, women should be entrusted with short arrows since they have short hands |
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wife
hairpin [symbol] + hand [ji] + woman (nu)
a hand placing a hairpin in a woman's hair - that's a moment of becoming a wife
a married woman with ornamental hairpin to hold up in a chignon |
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