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shǐ
commence
女 + 台
woman + stage
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Picture a woman on a stage commencing a women's march.

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xuán
whirl
9yǎn + 疋
banner + Spartan Race
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whirling banners mark the trail of the Spartan race

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yǎn
eye
目 + 艮gèn
eye + silver
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pirate or cat with two different colored eyes: silver and green-blue

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shā
kill
乂 + 朩
sheaf/X + pole
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X out a life hanging on a pole

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sài
competition
Qsāi + 贝
hamster cage + shells
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hamster wheel racing competition, money prize

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*devil's pitchfork
丷 + 屮
horns + pitchfork
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A devil's pitchfork is often depicted with horns.

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yīn
cause [n.]
囗 + 大
enclose + large/large dog
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What is the cause of enclosing the St. Bernard?

the mnemonic for remembering the spelling of "because": Big Elephants Can't Always Understand Small Elephants (so they get enclosed)

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shù
narrate
术shù + 辶
art + road
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Narrate through Art: The WPA will commission hundreds of thousands of murals for public buildings like hospitals, schools, post offices and city halls. Murals narrate through art the stories of humanity.

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máo
thatch
艹 + 矛máo
flowers + spear
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When a spear warps or otherwise becomes useless as a tool, it can be repurposed as a support for a thatch hut. Can you picture it propping up a canopy of flowers?

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men
[plural]
亻 + 门mén
persona + gate
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your persona finds her doppelganger (a person's look-alike) at the gate

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yáo
*cookie jar
爫 + 缶
claw + clay pot
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Smack the claw that is going into the clay cookie jar.

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tíng
royal court
壬 + 廴
knight + stretch
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knight is stretched to his limit when the royal court is on the move

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different
已yǐ + 廾
snakeskin + two hands
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What if our hands shed like snakeskin? And we had different skin underneath?

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jiào
relatively
车 + 交jiāo
vehicle + mingle
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mingling, comparing cars

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hàn
drought
日 + 干gān
sun + dry/clothesline
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if the sun makes things dry enough, it is a drought

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since, *flight attendant
艮 + 旡jì
silver token + server
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A flight attendant is a server who says, “Since you asked, I’ve been flying for 25 silver token years (and now have silver hair.)”

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mushroom (cap)
艹 + 磨mó
flowers + grind
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the caps of the mushrooms are the flowers, grind them into a paste

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lìng
another
口 + 力lì
mouth + muscle
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another mouth to feed means another day of muscle work

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zhī
know
矢shǐ + 口
dart + mouth
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A know-it-all: you want to throw darts at his mouth.

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