• Xiao
• small
• three small drops

• Shao
• FEW, little, less
• the fourth drop underlines that there are just a few drops - too little for anything at all   

• chao
• noisy
• a mouth could be heard very little (just a few of words) in a noisy place

112) 孙

孙子 / 孙女

• sun
• grandchild
• SUNzi / SUNnu
• grandson / granddaughter

• Da
• large, big

• Jian
• TIP, point, top
• a tapered small tip of large pagoda

• Xi
• EVENING, dusk
• a moon in the evening sky partially covered by a cloud for a poetic context

• duo
• many, much, numerous
• many moons ago

• gou
• enough, sufficient
• enough is enough! too many sentences 

• Wai
• outside
• during the evening the magic wand will be even more powerful if its brought outside under a moon 

• Ming
• NAME, fame, reputation
• in certain African tribes, a father creeps into a hut on the evening of his child's birth, to whisper into its ear the name he has chosen, before making his choice public, thus protecting the reputation of his child 

• luo
• Luo, SILK, net, to collect/gather;
• silk gauze; lightweight fabric
• a hear net (like a silk guaze) to wrap your head in at night;
• some things are easier to net and collect during the evening 

• Chang
• factory; workshop
• usually the factories are spacy and have a lot of machinery, specially after the industrialization; to simplify the character, only the "building" remained

• ting
• hall; room, office
• The transformation from a nail-factory to the "Hall of nails" together with an office for nails

• Li
• strict, severe, STERN
• schools are strict, like factories, in filling the students head with 10.000 bits of facts, and if you don't learn them you become a subject of a stern punishment   

• Hou
• thick; generous; deep, profound
• a child abandoned out on the wild non-generous cliffs and exposed to the heat of the sun develops a thick skin and a deep and profound animosity towards places like factories   

• Shi
• STONE, rock
• under a cliff there is an entrance - but blocked with a huge rock, and if one could push it slightly to the right with a lever, it would be possible to see collect the precious stones

• Sha
• sand, GRAVEL (šljunak)
• from just a few rocks one can get a 'cliff' of gravel and even more sand   

• Miao
• wonderful
• there are just a few of women which are wonderful 

• Xiao
• RESEMBLE, be like
• the left side of the candle is like the right side of the candle - they closely resemble each other

• xue
• to cut, to peel
• if one wants that two branches resembles each other like sticks, one needs a sharp knife for cutting and peeling 

• Guang
• light, brightness, RAY; glory
• a person is carrying a fire on his head radiating the rays of glory  

• tai
• too, extremely, very
• not just a huge - but an extremely big point

• Sheng
• to omit; to economize, to save; province
• when one has a big eye, he is left with few cash - so he need to economize and start to save money;
• a province is a region that is overseen by a few administrators - the element of control should not be omitted from the understanding of the character 

• Qi
• strange
• strange things a person can do on a horse