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spear, halberd
striking weapon/tool
a manual wielding of a polearm weapon represented by its striking head |
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section, segment,
paragraph
clif [an] + floors [symbol] + strike/stick (shu)
a hand with a tool 殳 to cut stuff into segments, and a bookmark 殳 to divide a book in paragraphs |
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to forge/wrought
to temper (metal)
metal (jin) + section (duan)
to strike a section of a metal to forge a new spear |
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sort, kind, class
boat (zhou) + strike/stick (shu)
a boat for weapons and a boat for tools - different class of boats for different sort of things |
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to move/transport
hand (shou) + sort (ban)
a hand takes the sorted items and moves them to a boat to be transported |
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to set up/arrange
to establish/design
word [yan] + strike/stick (shu)
words hit like a weapon to establish what is going on, and to set up a deal |
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not; not have;
to sink/submerge;
to disappear
water (shui) + strike/weapon (shu)
first, the spear sank, then it disappeared, and now one do not have neither a weapon nor a tool |
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