Ms. Cai is religious about taking flowers to offer sacrifice to her ancestors.

top hat on a literate gentleman farmer

sideways digital 4

all the gold piled up on the king’s arms under an umbrella; derivative: 钅jīn *metal

The pinnacle of Mr. Tao's pottery is his lidded clay pot.

Can't you picture the first emperor of China, Qin, demanding that his imperial gardens and fields be replicated in miniature in his tomb?

Ms. Li gathers a host of grain under a tarp, tied loosely so she can add more.

As Ms. Xiao looked at the solemn flowers around her at the funeral, she felt desolate.

Ms. Gong cannot be separated from her dragon; they'll be together forever.

Ms. Cao is having one terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bent day.

Mr. Shao was summoned to the city walls for execution?

Marquis Hou gets to know the maid as she irons

rely on welfare: you get the government bundle, but you still feel defeated

blankets or clothing made of animal furs to keep warm during cold Korean winters

pinnacle "achievement" of colonization: beating the land into submission OR Bouquet compost is our our pinnacle contribution to reclaiming the land.

Mr. Pan adds water and fertilizer to his garden.

He was the oldest child, so he got fed first OR golden child on a dish

tree planted when Wilbur was born

silk gauze fishnet hose worn in the evening

After letting Israel go, Pharaoh changes his mind and pursues them to the Red Sea. Moses parts the water to let his people pass through, but the water comes together in a deluge to flood the Egyptian army behind them.

Ms. Xue has cultivated a special type of flower inspired by memories of a previous boss. She uses a peppery fertilizer.

The flying witch Zou circles the city walls.

口天吴: this family hopes to taste heaven OR Trumpeter Wu: what comes from his mouth is heaven

repair a broken boomerang by using a staple gun to reattach the sections

a common surname, see (曾 céng formerly, *gremlin)

Mr. Cui hunts wild turkeys in the mountains.

revive the manager with the smell of flowers

a man named Yuan, silenced with soil and mouth tied with a scarf

Yangtze is a working river OR 3 Gorges Dam built of I-beams

Whatwhichwhhowherewhy? Your persona can!

plums are the tree’s children

a common surname: ”木子李“

Mr. Feng’s horse moves very slowly in the cold.

Mr. Jia is a merchant in the Wild West who trades for shells

Like people in all ages, the Israelites rebelled. They were getting sick and dying from snake bites, so Moses got up on a cliff with his long hair waving in the wind. He held up his staff, wrapped with a snake, and said that all the people needed to do to be healed was look back toward God (represented by the staff), and they would live.

The Song Dynasty-style house with a tree growing it its center courtyard. OR Song dynasty architecture: wooden houses and pagodas

 A ceremonial guard named Yao: he could almost be a statue, his human legs are so still.

Night at the Louvre Museum where Mr. Lu uses magic to bring some corpses to life.

piglets floating in the water of the soup

Europe is a region lacking growth

Mr. Liao started a caveman-themed resort, complete with kiddie cocktails served at the pool-side cave.

alternative breakdown: 囗+土 enclose + soil; derivatives: 由 *sprout, 申 *beet, 甲 *radish

The solution to your well-being is to go outside your cave and rake the snow. This will keep your mind and body active and give you an escape path should you need it. (Hunter Gatherer)

alternatively: 广 + 隶, cave + bondservant Your well-being improves when you have a bondservant in the cave to rake the snow for you.

alternative breakdown: 口+口 mouth + mouth

On dental visits as a child, more often that not, the dental hook finds a cavity.

crumbling cliff, stones falling

small children are taken care of by their grandparents in China

The former Ms. Wei heads the committee of ghosts that haunt her hometown.

over the microphone: at noon you will be permitted to enter the store

The pinnacle entrance to the ceremony will be Miss Chen exhibited on a rickshaw.

耳东陈

God gives them specific instructions about the trees in the garden. There is one with very tempting vermillion fruit from which they are not supposed to eat. Can you see the fruit hanging on the branch of this tree?

That woman is named 安娜 (ānnà Anna).

“His other bad habit is leaf, ten at a time in his lower lip.” (Trumpeter Wu)

We'd like to welcome to the show the biographer of Mr. Tan, the first person in the West to cultivate sunflowers. She is Ms. Tan, Tan's granddaughter.

because of the excess of people in the queue, it moved very slowly

Picture this military salute: one stamp of the foot followed by a flash of the pistol.

Shen is the crown prince’s valet, responsible for washing him, dressing him, etc.

likes to pretend to be dead, have a broken leg

Mr. Tan was the first person to cultivate sunflowers in the West.

Ginger Jiang, a shepherdess, forages for wild ginger while tending her sheep.

The Qiu family are all buried on Qiu hill.

Mr. Ke is a can-do "feller".

Mr. Wang was known as the "water king" because he is always so tearful.

the model for a new craft: pressed flowers and worms in wet clay

scorpion banner for a gang that executes crimes

In the dragon dance, humans hold up the dragon’s long body with sticks, and they dance, following a large pearl.

Mr. Deng lives to the right of the city. OR Mr. Deng swears loyalty to the city.

You have an experiment of sorts going on in your cave. You got so much juice from your tangerine spearing that you have dried it into a primitive Tang powder. You made yourself a mini rake to mix it and sample it regularly with your mouth. (Now, of course, this character does not refer to the fake orange drink, but the Tang dynasty of China.)

Lady Liang (like Lady Macbeth) tries to wash her guilt, but when she can't come clean, she hangs herself from a roof beam.

the outer walls, furthest from the city are the most enjoyable

Your persona appoints/is appointed a knight.

strict Asian parenting makes some children jump off a cliff

a strict Asian factory

tanks roll together over the field, battalion members all have on a helmet

Ms. Jiang was given flowers by the General.

avoid fields when you hear thunder

antenna on alien with only a mouth, so he has to ask for orientation

If you are a hunter-gatherer in a place with no naturally occurring caves, you may wish to use a dugout, which you could then attract friends and blossom into a hamlet like Hobbitville.

It's serious: Mr. Zheng has been shut out from the city.

a noble family that defended itself with the sword

This drummer boy, named Peng, adds a bird tail to his cap.

Ms. Yao saw the turtle shell left on her doorstep as a good omen.

Congratulations, let me add some shells to your pile

Mr. Fu has been my mentor at the lab, teaching me how to efficiently administer the thumb pricks before patients have time to think about it.

Mr. Zhao forbids us to walk through his property

Ms. Hao gets arrested for painting crimson graffiti on the city walls.

Ms. Du studies how trees prevent the soil from eroding

Mr. Yan places a trap at the city gate to catch his love? his enemy?

a drop of sunshine: white light

the Chinese bind up big numbers at 10,000

ten thousand directions on a compass, moves by a drop

This is a tall man costume with someone on someone else’s shoulders. The guy on top wears a top hat to make him even taller. The guy on the bottom wears a hood to cover his face.

The king is the connection between heaven and earth.

“王字旁” when it appears as a component on the left, we'll call it "jewel" (derived from 玉yù jade), when it is on the right or bottom, we'll call it "king"

alternatively: 讠+身+寸 microphone + somebody + thumb, in a microphone: thank you to the somebody who...they deserve a thumbs up

use a microphone to shoot somebody a thank you or thumbs up

hire "fans" to hang by their noses to the ceiling, use their legs to move the summer air

Mrs. Yu, the inventor of the clothing pulleys that are installed outside people’s apartment windows

Ammunition is expensive. A machine gun might as well be shooting metal coins.

hippie mirage of sun dog wearing flowers named Morgan

sewing by the window, easier to tie knots with the sunlight

It is easy to waste your day getting tied in knots over things out of your control.