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Chinese - Ch 10
Chinese Characters from the book by Heisig & Richardson
24
Language - Chinese
Beginner
10/21/2024

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Term
202) 木
Definition
  • mu
  • wood, timber, TREE
Term
203) 林
Definition
  • lin
  • forest, woods
  • small or a medium size grove (šumarak)
Term
204) 森
Definition
  • senlin
  • forest
  • dense, large or vast forest
Term
205) 梦
Definition
  • meng
  • dream
  • I don't dream about spending an evening in a forest
Term
206) 机
Definition
  • ji
  • machine, opportunity
  • a desk made of wood for a machine which will bring new opportunities
Term
207) 植
Definition
  • zhi
  • plant
  • a tree should grow up straight if it's planted well
Term
208) 杏
Definition
  • xing
  • apricot
  • a mouth agape at the bottom of a tree waiting for apricots to fall dawn (marelica, kajsija)
Term
209) 呆
Definition
  • dai
  • foolish, stupid, dull(-minded)
  • to put your mouth at the top of a tree and to expect that the fruits will "jump up" is very stupid
  • a person who is unresponsive or dull, as if he is as lifeless and unmoving as a piece of wood, with his mouth wide open but unable to speak intelligently
Term
210) 枯
Definition
  • ku
  • dried out, whitered, decayed; dull
  • a tree that has aged and dried out
Term
211) 村
Definition
  • cun
  • VILLAGE, hamlet
  • trees around an inches-small village  
Term
212) 相
Definition
  • xiang
  • mutual, each other, one another
  • first, you will remove a splinter from my eye, then I will remove a trunk from your eye - that's how we help each other 
Term
213) 本
Definition
  • benzi
  • root, origin, book, this; foundation 
  • the root () of a tree is the "origin" of a tree - is its foundation - in the same way books are the foundation () of knowledge
Term
214) 案
Definition
  • an
  • (legal) case, file, record, proposal
  • a woman layer at the wooden desk calmly examines files and records of a current case
Term

214) 未

compare with 

Definition
  • wei
  • not, NOT YET
  • small buds (一) on a tree meaning not yet in bloom; the final stage () is not yet in process
Term

215) 末

compare with 

Definition
  • mo
  • end, LAST, final stage
  • when the additional branch branch () was short, it meant 'not yet', but now it has reached it's last, final stage
Term
216) 沫
Definition
  • mo
  • FOAM, froth (pjena), bubbles, suds (sapunica)
  • on the shore, the end of the water is in foam and froth 
Term
217) 味
Definition
  • wei
  • taste, FLAVOR
  • when a tree has not yet finished growing, it produces fruit with a full flavor; when an professional mouth - the official taster - determines that full flavor has been reached, the tree is pruned back, so it remains permanently not yet grown;
Term
218) 妹
Definition
  • mei
  • sister, YOUNGER SISTER
  • younger sister is not yet a woman 
Term
219) 查
Definition
  • cha
  • to check, to investigate, to examen, to research
  • from the dawn - or the whole night till the dawn - the wooden evidence will be examined and investigate 
Term
221) 渣
Definition
  • zha
  • dregs (talog), residue, slag
  • ???
  • with the help water and a sieve one can investigate what is hiding in residues
Term
222) 染
Definition
  • ran
  • to dye; to infect
  • by using trees covered with dragon's saliva one gets infected
Term
223) 李
Definition
  • li
  • plum (šljiva)
  • children like to target the plum-trees
Term
224) 桌
Definition
  • zhuo
  • TABLE, desk
  • it is an outstanding achievement to turn a trunk of a tree into a wooden desk just with a help of a magic wand
Term
225) 杂
Definition
  • za
  • mixed, miscellaneous, various
  • a small tree-dragon has 9 different colors mixed on his skin
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