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color [n.]
⺈ + 巴
mask + boa
Character Notes

This is “Rainboa”—a colorful masked snake.

can also be pronounced "shǎi" when it means a die (that you roll for games)

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fǒu
negate
不 + 口
no + mouth
Character Notes

use mouth to negate someone’s idea

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guì
cassia-bark tree
木 + 圭guī
tree + bricks
Character Notes

tree from which comes bricks of cinnamon powder

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tòu
penetrate
秀xiù + 辶
elegant + road
Character Notes

Picture the elegant road Champs d‘Elysee and how it penetrates the city of Paris.

Light Penetrates the Elegant Structure: During the New Deal era, many practical, yet elegant, civic buildings are being constructed across the country. See how light penetrates the elegant lobby of the Cohen Federal Building? (1930's On the Road)

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gāng
ridge
冂 + 乂
hood + sheaf
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You need a hood for the wind 风 at the ridge.

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风fēng wind

jìng
revere
艹 + 句jù + 攵
flowers + sentence + taskmaster
Character Notes

What does a wedding taskmaster revere? Perfect flowers, perfect sentences.

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zhuā
grab
扌 + 爪zhuǎ
hand + vulture
Character Notes

use hand to grab like a vulture

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róng
glory [n.]
(艹宀)yíng + 木
rooftop garden + tree
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a glorious tree trying to break through to the rooftop garden

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xìng
sex
忄 + 生shēng
meme + life/seed
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meme of process from pollination to a seed

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dōng
winter
夂 + 冫
walking legs + ice
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walking legs slip on the ice in the winter

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shuā
brush [n./v.]
尸 + 巾 + 刂
corpse/flag + towel + sword
Character Notes

famous swordsman buried with his towel and toothbrush

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bèng
hop [v.]
⻊ + 崩bēng
lower leg + crumble
Character Notes

Mother, may I take a crumble hop?

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door
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alternative breakdown: 丶+尸 drop + corpse/flag

as a component: “户字旁”

variant: 戶

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尸 shī corpse/flag

chì
fins
支zhī + 羽
branch + wings
Character Notes

branch of the business is importing wings and exporting fins

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jiāo
sprinkle
氵 + 尧yáo
water + ceremonial guard
Character Notes

To vary the work, watering/sprinkling the plants was assigned to the ceremonial guard.

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kàng
combat [v.]
扌 + 亢kàng
hand + whirlwind
Character Notes

Trying to catch something with your hand that is being blown around is like having combat with a whirlwind.

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wěi
great
亻 + 韦wéi
persona + tanned hide
Character Notes

your persona’s godson “David the Great” is a tanner

David becomes great when he tans Goliath's hide.

*David can be transliterated 大伟 or 大卫

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C

*crutches
丿 + 丨
slash + walking stick
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fēng
wind [n.], *windstorm
几 + 乂
*wind + sheaf
Character Notes

Picture a sheaf of wheat tied so tight in a bundle in a field that the wind has to go up and over it in a windstorm.

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