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chún
mellow wine
酉 + 享
whiskey bottle + enjoy
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Picture a whiskey bottle labeled "mellow wine" being enjoyed.

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secrete
氵 + 必bì
water + certainly/cross my heart
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Picture crossing your heart and water secreting where your fingers traced the cross.

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astringent
氵 + 刃 + 止
water + blade + stop/footprint
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Picture yourself washing off the blade to stop the astringent from the spinach from affecting the fruit.

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shave
弟dì + 刂
younger brother + sword
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Picture your younger brother shaving with a sword.

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yuè
wife's parents
丘 + 山
hill + mountain
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Sometimes you have to climb the hill and mountain that are your wife's parents to understand her.

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táng
mantis
虫 + 堂táng
insect + main room
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Picture a praying mantis leading a meeting of insects in the main room of your house.

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tài
get rid of
氵 + 太tài
water + overly
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Picture using water to flush away or get rid of an over abundance of Vitamin C in your system.

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kān
survey [v]
甚 + 力
laundry chute + muscle
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Picture creative children using their muscles to hold open a laundry chute to survey the scene below.

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hǎn
rarely
㓁 + 干gān
patched hole + clothesline
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You rarely have to patch holes if you always dry your clothes on a clothesline.

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xié
coerce
扌 + 夹
hand + press from both sides
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Picture hands pressing from both sides on someone's head to coerce them to look at something.

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zhóu
axle
车 + 由yóu
vehicle + sprout
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Picture an axle growing outward from a vehicle like a sprout.

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(in)-struct
口 + 付fù
mouth + pay
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We'll pay you! Just instruct us.

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fēn
in-(struct)
口 + 分fēn
mouth + part
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Please instruct us part by part.

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jasmine
艹 + 利lì
flowers + profit
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Jasmine is a profitable flower because it is used in perfume and rituals.

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róng
cottonrose hibiscus
艹 + 容róng
flowers + contain
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The category of flowers called hibiscus contain the cottonrose hibiscus.

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hibiscus
艹 + 夫fū
flowers + husband
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The flowers from my husband were hibiscus.

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in disorder
艹 + 耒 + 昔xī
flowers + Christmas tree + times past
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In my mind, the seasons are in disorder in New Zealand with flowering Christmas trees but traditions clinging to times past in the British Isles.

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cattail
艹 + 浦pǔ
flowers + river mouth
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What feels like fuzzy cattails are really the plant's flowers. They grow at the river mouth.

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river mouth
氵 + 甫fǔ
water + injection
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A river mouth is where the water gets injected into the river.

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