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fān
turn over
番fān + 羽
fertilizer + wings
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Imagine that while applying fertilizer, you turn over the soil and turn up wings.

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biān
bat (front end)
虫 + 扁biǎn
insect + flat/doormat
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uses flat surfaces for echo-location

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qiū
Qiu
丘qiū + X阝
hill + city walls
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The Qiu family are all buried on Qiu hill, which is surrounded by city walls.

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xiàng
item
工 + 页
I-beam + page
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I-beam shape of an outlined list of items on a page

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gǎng
port [n.]
氵 + 巷xiàng
water + lane
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water meeting lanes makes a port

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mǎo
*sealed and stamped
T + 卩
envelope + stamped
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sealed envelope with stamped original inside (like a transcript)

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zhǎng
palm of the hand
6shàng + 手
outhouse + hand
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Take a coin in the palm of the hand to the outhouses in Europe.

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tuǒ
appropriate
爫 + 女
claw + woman
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Mother: To achieve the perfect look, it would be totally appropriate to spend all afternoon underneath what appears to be a large claw coming down on my head. / Daughter: A claw clip is versatile enough for appropriate hairstyles for various occasions.

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trumpet
口 + 八bā
mouth + eight
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“But with a trumpet, he could scale those eight notes up and down.” (Trumpeter Wu)

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example
亻 + 列liè
persona + line up
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Your persona makes an example of herself by facing the zombies that have lined up with swords.

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river
氵 + 可kě
water + can
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"Little Steamboat that Could" chugging up the river, saying "I think I can..."

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guǒ
fruit
田 + 木
field + tree
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fruit orchard: a field of trees

alternatively: 日+木 sun + tree, need sun to ripen the fruit on the trees

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gǒng
two hands
hand modified
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开 kāi *open hands

solemn
肀 + C + 八
rake + crutches + animal legs
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Hunca Munca is one of Beatrix Potter's two bad mice who steal from a doll's house and then feel very solemn when caught. Here she is stealing a rake and crutches and running away.

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mèi
flatter
女 + 眉méi
woman + eyebrows
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Mother: He says the first time we met, I kept making eyebrows at him. I say, “Don’t flatter yourself.” / Daughter: You noticed my eyebrows? Wow, I’m flattered.

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raccoon dog
犭 + 里lǐ
Aesop + inside/computer
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“The Computer and the Raccoon Dog”  Raccoon Dog was making his nightly rounds to the neighborhood trash cans when he came across a computer left out on someone’e porch. Seeing the “apple” and thinking it would taste good, he pawed at it. The screen lit up! Surprised, but curious, he became absorbed by a swirling colorful screen saver. In fact, he couldn’t take his eyes off of it, and he died of starvation staring at it. Moral: Digital addiction is real. Raccoons not excepted. (Fables)

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jiān
interval
门mén + 日
gate + sun
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interval between the gate doors, sunlight peeks through

tell time using the shadow from the sun on the gate

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qún
crowd [n.]
君jūn + 羊
Trump + sheep
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Trump attracted a crowd of sheep

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jiāng
ginger
羊yáng + 女
sheep + woman
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Little Miss Ginger Jiang, a shepherdess, forages for wild ginger while tending her sheep.

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