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to eat, meal, food
covered with a lid (亼), there is a good (艮) meal kept warm for eating. Used as part of a character, it changes to 饣. |
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to be hungry, hunger, to starve
eat 饣=食 [shí] + I/me 我113b[wǒ]
that's food (饣) for me (我) because I (我) am hungry |
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pack(age), wrap
wrap (bao) + unborn child (si)
to wrap a baby with cloth
a shape of a pregnant woman hugging her unborn child |
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full, satisfied
eat (shi) + wrap (bao)
to be 'full' means you eat so much that you look like a woman who has a child inside |
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to hand over,
to deliver; cross
intersect; pay
head (tou) + crossed legs (symbol)
under a roof, a head of the family - the father - is responsible for delivering important decisions |
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dumpling
eat 饣=食137[shí] + mix/deliver 交 [jiāo]
Dumplings are made by delivering (交) various ingredients to eat (饣) |
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