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breath
自 + 心xīn
nose + heart
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Breathe in through your nose to feed O2 to your heart.

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tàn
spy [n]
扌 + 罙shēn
hand + hole in the bottom of the sea
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You use your hands to spy out the hole in the bottom of the sea.

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lào
cheese
酉 + 各
whiskey bottle + each
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The bottles on the right aren’t whiskey but rennet for making cheese. Each one is different.

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féng
*briars
夂 + 丰fēng
walking legs + bushes
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Sleeping Beauty’s prince has to walk through the bushes of briars

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dǒng
understand
忄 + 董dǒng
meme + director
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meme of Funeral Director Dong patting someone offering a tissue "I understand

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mama
女 + 马mǎ
woman + horse
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Does your mama like horses?

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strategy
⺮ + 朿cì
bamboo + thorn
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In this competition each team will develop a strategy, using bamboo, to get through the thorn thicket.

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zhǐ
*trail of footprints
“walking” footprints
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jǐng
police [n.]
敬jìng + 言
revere + speech
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Revere the police officer’s speech or else.

Alternatively: 艹 + 勹 + 口 + 攵 + 言 flowers + bound up + mouth + taskmaster + speech

Police are taskmasters that bind up the mouths of criminals who have flowery speech.

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interest
走 + 取qǔ
walk + take
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walk through a buffet line, take what interests you

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kuàng
situation
冫 + 兄
ice + teenager
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Because of a difficult situation with our teenager, we are going to put him on ice for 5 years (like Han Solo).

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líng
spirit
彐 + 火
broom + fire
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A spirit dancing around the fire with a broom.

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jiā
home
宀 + 豕
house + sow
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Picture a house on stilts with pigs underneath.

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yíng
*rooftop garden
艹 + 宀
flowers + house
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A rooftop garden is where flowers grow on top of a house.

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rice
grain modified
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whole grain threshed into grains of rice

as a component: “米字旁”

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fishing [n.]
氵 + 鱼yú
water + fish
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you can go fishing where there is some water and fish

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宿

stay overnight
宀 + 亻 + 百
house + persona + hundred
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hundred people in a house staying overnight

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shell [n.]
士 + 冗
soldier + superfluous
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To a soldier in training, an extra shell of armor seems superfluous.

Prince Superfluous is sent off as a soldier and dies in a shelling.

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zhì
wisdom
知zhī + 日
know + day/sun
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To know your sun will set is wisdom.

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