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ChiCha202 - Nature - Natural Scenery - water
Discover their Hidden Meanings
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Language - Chinese
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03/02/2025

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Term

shui

Definition

water

a different form of water (水), which is used only in combination with other characters 

Term

gong

Definition

work, labor

tool, anvil (nakovanj)

An I-beam in construction (symbolizing industry)

Term

jiang

Definition

large, long river

长江 (Cháng Jiāng) – Yangtze River (China's longest river)

江水 river water; 江边 riverbank; 

A powerful flow of water (氵) that cuts through the land like a tool (工) — that’s a 江, a great river shaping everything around it

Term

liu

Definition

to flow, to drift

流水 flowing water; 河流 river, stream; 流动 to move, to circulate

流行 popular, trending (what’s “flowing” through society); 

潮流 trend/tide (lit. tidal flow);  流血 to bleed; 流浪 to roam;

 

[liú],” which symbolizes a child playing in flowing water, is not used by itself. Therefore water () is added to restore the original meaning of water flowing.

Term

pai

Definition

a faction, school (of thought)

to dispatch, send

 

Symbolizes small branch rivers separating (symbol) from the main stream (), which came to mean factions or the act of dispatching someone to another place.

Term

mei

Definition

each, every

每天 every day; 每件事 every matter

每逢 whenever; every time

a mother with a posh hairpin is an envy of each and every female elders

Term

hai

Definition

sea, ocean

海洋 ocean; 人海 "a sea of people" (crowd); 

when one see water EVERY where, he is looking at a sea

Term

xue

Definition

hole, cave,

acupuncture point

roof/dwelling (mian) + split open (ba)

Imagine a tiny house (宀) built on a mountain.
Below the roof, there's a split (八) in the ground—an entrance to a secret cave.

Term

shen

Definition

deep, profound 

深水 deep water; 水很深 the water is deep;

深刻 profound; deeply felt; 深情 deep affection; 深信 to firmly believe

深度 depth (literal/figurative); 深夜 late at night (lit. deep night)

a stream of water () flowing into a hole () with a big depth (罙 ), thus creating a deep cave (穴);

water's () depth (罙 ) is deep

Term

zhi

Definition

juice, sap

果汁 fruit juice; 汁液 sap; liquid extract; 肉汁 meat juice, gravy

墨汁 ink; 血液汁 blood plasma; 

a water () being pressed () and squeezed () 10 times  (十) from a fruit to get a juice ()

Term

tai

Definition

platform;

unit for counting machines

chest/private (si) + altar [symbol]

private chest put on the altar's platform as a gift;

the best "platform" to express own private things is a mouth

Term

zhi

Definition

to rule, to govern,

to manage

water [shui] + platform (tai)

when a water is being channeled by a platform, that's an example of water management

Term

liu

Definition

flowing hair

璃 colored glaze/glass;  磺 sulfur; 金 gold-coated

 

to fill 充 with () so much (the additional middle stroke ι) that it looks like it just flows

Term

chong

Definition

to fill, to be full of

to act as, serve as

充满 to fill up;  充当 to serve as;

充足 sufficient; 冒充 to impersonate;

充电 to recharge (lit. fill electricity); 充分 fully; ample

under a roof () of authority a shaman (with his long hair and a hat ) approves () the sacrifices and act as intermediary for gods to fulfill the wishes of people

Term

shen

Definition

to probe or measure depth

a cave probed with a piece of wood to measure its depth

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