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small, tiny, trivial,
insignificant
two 戈 stacked vertically because of their smallness |
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metal
钅 looks like a tiny hooked ingot (金’s essence) — it turns characters into metal words |
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money, cash, coin
metal [jin] + small (jian)
a metal which is small and shaped like a spade was used as an early version of coin and commodity money during the Zhou family |
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shallow, not deep
superficial
water [shui] + small/tiny (jian)
where there is a tiny layer of water (or "small" in deep) we say that it is shallow |
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