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child / meaningless suffix
a child wrapped in a blanket means 'sons and daughters' |
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learning, school
two hands and a knot [symbol] + cover [mi] + child (zi)
a child is learning thatching the roof with hands |
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character; word
house [mian] + child (zi)
under the roof of the Chinese house of pictograms new words and characters are like new children
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plum
tree (mu) + child (zi)
a plum tree has many child-fruits |
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woman
a woman sitting with here hands on her knees |
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safe, secure, quiet;
peaceful, calm
house [mian] + woman (nu)
a woman - weaker than a man - feels safe at home |
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feast, banquet
house [mian] + day/sun [ri] + woman (nu)
when a newly married woman is brought home is a day for a celebration and a feast |
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good
woman (nu) + child (zi)
mother is almost always good to her child |
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young lady/woman;
mother
woman (nu) + good (liang)
the best time in woman's life is when she is a young lady |
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so, therefore
unborn child |
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milk
woman (nu) + unborn child/so (nai)
a woman holding her new baby to feed milk |
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slave
woman (nu) + hand/again (you)
when mistreated as a slave, a woman is held time and again by her hair |
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strive
slave (nu) + plow/power (li)
a slave striving to plow the land on time
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as, just like, if
woman (nu) + mouth (kou)
what a woman says is as true as possible |
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pain; suffering
awl (šilo - za bušenje rupa u koži) |
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concubine
awl/pain (xin) + woman (nu)
to use an awl to tattoo a woman's forehead and make her a slave or a concubine |
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connect; receive
hand (nu) + concubine (qie)
to offer a hand to a concubine to connect with her or to receive her servitude |
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entrust, appoint
rice plant/grain (he) + woman (nu)
a woman should be entrusted with grains |
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short, low
arrow (shi) + entrust (wei)
a woman entrusted with too much heavy jobs becomes as short as an arrow |
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wife
hairpin [symbol] + hand [ji] + woman (nu)
a married woman with ornamental hairpin to hold up in a chignon |
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mother (formal)
skew the 'woman' character and put two dots as breasts |
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each, every
hairpin [symbol] + mother (mu)
mother pulls her each thread of her hair up with a hairpin |
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sea
water [shui] + each/every (mei)
each and every drop of water form a sea |
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father (formal)
father holding a stick in his hand to hunt for family |
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dad, father (informal)
father (fu) + child/hope (ba)
a young child calls his father 'dad' |
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grandfather
father (fu) + kneel/person (jie)
a father kneels to his grandfather |
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