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xié
slant
余 + 斗
excess + big dipper
Character Notes

Excess weight on a scale made of two big dippers makes it slant.

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niān
pick up with a thumb and a finger
扌 + 占zhān
hand + tell fortunes
Character Notes

The fortune teller picks up (with her thumb and a finger) an imaginary thread from the palm of your hand.

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toot
口 + 都dū
mouth + metropolis
Character Notes

There are lots of tooting horns in a metropolis.

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mumble
口 + 鲁lǔ
mouth + Lu
Character Notes

Lu mumbles as he sells his sun-dried fish.

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Lu
鱼yú + 日
fish + sun
Character Notes

Lu is a seller of sun-dried fish.

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zào
cooking stove
火 + 土
fire + soil
Character Notes

a fire in a cooking stove built of soil

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[expression of surprise]
口 + 夷yí
mouth + barbarian
Character Notes

A barbarian shows up at your party and you make an expression of surprise.

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dǔn
take a nap
目 + 屯tún
eye + stockpile
Character Notes

They say you can't stockpile sleep, but a nap sure helps me keep my eyes open through the evening.

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péng
shed [n]
木 + 朋péng
tree/wood + companion
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The shed is a wooden clubhouse for your companions.

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suō
shrink
纟 + 宿sù
thread + stay overnight
Character Notes

You shrink your threads staying overnight in the dorms or at a slumber party.

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bluff
口 + 虎hǔ
mouth + tiger
Character Notes

Is the tiger story told in the Life of Pi a bluff?

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zāo
messed up
米 + 曹cáo
rice + Cao
Character Notes

Cáo Cāo hasn't spent much time in the kitchen, so when he has to make his own rice, he messes it up.

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cèng
rub against
足 + 曾céng
lower leg + formerly/gremlin
Character Notes

The gremlin rubbed against his lower leg as he wreaked havoc on the plane's cockpit.

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zhuó
chisel [v]
王 + 豖
jewel + hogtied
Character Notes

You use the jewel to chisel through the rope on the hogtied pig.

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chù
*hogtied
豕 + 丶
sow + drop
Character Notes

A sow tied up with all four feet together.

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zhēng
unshut [v]
目 + 争zhēng
eye + contend
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Your eyes contend to stay open.

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put aside
扌 + 阁gé
hand + cabinet
Character Notes

Use your hand to put aside food in the cabinet.

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cabinet
门 + 各gè
gate + each
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In a cabinet, each item is stored carefully behind the gate (or cabinet door).

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diàn
pad
执 + 土
clench + soil
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To make a primitive pad for sitting on a rock, clench soft soil together in a pile.

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