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claw
nail
a hand with long fingernails like claws |
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therefore
claw/hand/nail (zhao) + 2 boundary lines (symbol) + line (pie) + hand/again (you)
the hand of someone by the water and the hand of someone in the water are tied with a rope; therefore, the drowning person will be saved by pulling |
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warm
sun (ri) + pull/therefore (yuan)
pull the sun closer to feel warm |
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creep, crawl
claw/hand/nail (zhao) + child/hope (ba)
a small child is crawling on his hands |
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pick, collect
claw/hand/nail (zhao) + tree (mu)
to pick a tree's young shoots or fruit by hand |
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dish, vegetables
grass (cao) + pick (cai)
vegetables are plants picked by hand |
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color
pick (cai) + decorate/hair (shan)
pick up leaves of a tree to create different colors to dye material for decoration |
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melon
a fruit hanging on the hands of a tree
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(once) again
when part of a more complicated character, it means hand |
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take, get
ear (er) + hand/again (you)
victorious soldiers took the ears of fallen enemies and carried them in their hands |
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announce;
report, newspaper
hand/again (you) + kneel/person (jie) + hand/again (you)
announcements are made through newspapers |
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serve; clothes
boat (zhou) + kneel/person (jie) + hand/again (you)
you force a man to kneel and keep him in your ship making him serving you in special clothes |
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change
decorated trumpets (yi) + hand/again (you)
servants blew trumpets and beat drums with their hands to announce a huge change |
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joyous, happy; joyful
hand/again (you) + yawn (qian)
a joyous welcome with hands wide open and mouth open as yawning |
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friendly
hand (you) + hand/again (you)
two overlapping hands mean cooperation; a friend offers a hand when one is in need |
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love
hand/nail (zhao) + cover (mi) + friend (you) |
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send (out); hair
both feet (symbols) + hand (you) + hand/again (you)
a hairy man with both feet apart, a bow in one hand and a spear in another hand, ready to "send" a war message |
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Chinese;
Han Dynasty
water (shui) + hand/again (you)
the Han originated from around Hanshui River and established Chinese culture |
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difficult
hand/again (you) + bird (zhui)
it is difficult for a bird to use its wings as hands |
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pair
hand/again (you) + hand/again (you)
to hold a pair of birds in both hands |
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borrow(jie); fake; vacation; borrow
mine (symbol) + mined mineral (symbol) + hand/again (you)
man's hand mining a valuable metals in a mine; a philosophical interpretation: the metals are borrowed from nature; a fake beauty - created with jewels borrowed from nature; a vacation is a borrowed time |
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old man
torch (symbol) + hand/again (you)
old man searching with a torch in his hands |
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34m) 瘦 / 瘦弱
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thin; emaciated*
*abnormally thin, especially because of illness or a lack of food
sick (chuang) + old man (sou)
sick old man becomes very thin or emaciated |
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