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shéi
who
讠 + 隹zhuī
microphone + special bird
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in a microphone: "Who let the turkeys out? Who? Who? Who?"

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fog
⻗ + 务wù
weather + tasks
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fog is weather good for tasks indoors OR In China, if the pollution is bad, the weather app says “fog.” Then you have the extra task of checking the pollution app to know whether or not to wear an N-95 mask outside.

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newborn
女 + 圭
woman + bricks
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Carrying a newborn can feel to a woman like carrying around bricks.

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jiāo
spice plant
木 + 叔
wood + uncle
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Uncle Schubert grows woody spice plants in his yard.

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pān
Pan
氵 + 番fān
water + fertilizer
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Little Miss Pan adds water and fertilizer to her garden.

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spinach
艹 + 波bō
flowers + waves
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You get sea-sick from the waves and throw up your spinach flowers.

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tiě
iron [n.]
钅 + 失
metal + lose
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husband pumping iron to lose weight

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pǎo
run [v.]
⻊ + 包bāo
lower leg + wrap
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"Mother, may I wrap my lower leg and run?" (Mother, May I?)

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broadcast [v.]
扌 + 番
hand + fertilizer
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You use your hand to broadcast the fertilizer over the field.

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bìng
combine [v.]
丷 + 开
horns + open hands
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weird combination of horns and "cow hands" that open (it's a snuff box)

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yòu
right [n./adj.]
𠂇 + 口kǒu
by one's side + mouth
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This statue shows a little mouth by one’s right side telling you the right (a play on words) decision to make.

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tàng
trip [m.w.]
走 + 尚shàng
walk + esteem
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walking with the esteemed Yoda a number of trips around the pond

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bàn
partner
亻 + 半bàn
persona + half
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Your persona's other half is her partner.

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qiàn
lack [v.]
⺈ + 人
mask + person
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a mask on a person, covering what they lack

a person lacks oxygen, so they are given a breathing mask

as a component: “欠字旁”

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tóu
throw [v.]
扌 + 殳
hand + boomerang
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use hand to throw boomerangs

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land [n.]
阝fù + 击
pinnacle + beat
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The pinnacle "achievement" of colonization was beating the land into submission.

alternatively: pinnacle + bouquet + pit, Bouquet compost is our our pinnacle contribution to reclaiming the land.

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*flower arrangement
艹 + 一
flowers + floor
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Picture flowers on a base.

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*grow up
土 + 一
soil + one
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picture of sprout growing more leaves: 土龶丰

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生shēng life/seed

gōu
cross out
勹 + 厶
bound up + monument
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The Washington Monument was begun in 1848 but halted during the Civil War. It was completed in 1888 with marble from a different source. You can see a difference in shading about 1/3 of the way up. So, think of the monument being "crossed out" with war, and then finished to represent the U.S. being "bound up."

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