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earth, dust, soil
Signifies a mound of earth or soil. Also came from the model of male penis made from earth. |
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also; too
when watching a woman's genitals one squints with the other eyes too |
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earth, ground, land
<structural particle, before a verb or adjective>
soil gives life like woman's genitals to the farmed land |
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field, open space, ground, place
traditional form 場
A large ground (土) with sunlight shining upon it (昜) provides a suitable place (场) people to gather and hold events |
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to sit; take a seat
two people (人) sitting down on ground (土) to have a sitting |
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wide, broad
house on a cliff, symbolizing a sheltered space |
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seat, base, stand
a person who is comfortably seated during a sitting (坐) inside a house (广). |
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not
root of a plant will not spring above the ground |
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bad, spoiled (food)
broken, not working
When the soil (土) no longer (不) produce crops it is turned bad |
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stingy
double+ soil + [symbol 'plus'] + storage (symbol)
a stingy person puts money in a vault inside a vault buried under double layer of soil |
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wall
soil (tu) + stingy (se)
walls of soil are build by stingy people |
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once (in the past)
great-grand
未曾 "never have"; 曾几何时 "not long ago"
曾孙 "great-grandson"; 曾祖父 great grandfather
the layers above the setting sun |
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to increase, to add
to enhance
earth (土) accumulates additional layers (曾) thus increasing its size
增值 "added value", 增量 "increment"; 增强 "to strengthen" |
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strange, queer
a heart (忄) in front of something holy and wise (又) feels strange |
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holy, sacred
sage, wise person
a hand that rules everything on the earth, holy from above, earth-grounded and wisely down |
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