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nǎo
brain
月 + 㐫nǎo
body part + Scrooge
Character Notes

Scrooge had a developed brain (but not heart)

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xiāng
aid [v.], *Jiminy Cricket
亠 + 吅 + R + 𧘇
top hat + chatterbox + wire mesh + scarf
Character Notes

Wearing a top hat and scarf, this chatterbox cricket doesn’t live in a wire mesh cage, but does aid Pinnochio.

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xiè
discharge [v.]
氵 + 世shì
water + generation
Character Notes

discharge of fluids, blood-letting was the cure-all for generations

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kin
戊 + 上 + 小
cannon + above + small
Character Notes

Uncle Schubert does a cannonball jump into the pool to the delight of his younger kin.

The justification of the cannon is it is protecting kin, flies above the small people.

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叔 shū uncle

jiān
double [adj.]
丷 + 肀 + 八
horns + rakes + animal legs
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This is an illegal (horns) migrant worker who holds double jobs, a day laborer with a rake and a night hand at an animal shelter.

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guàng
stroll
狂kuáng + 辶
crazy + road
Character Notes

Stroll like Crazy: In normal times, strolling in the middle of the road would be crazy, but this road was abandoned when the factory closed. (1930's On the Road)

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grip [v.]
扌 + 屋wū
hand + habitation
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use hand to grip the hand of the new home owner

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yào
want [v.]
西 + 女
Wild West + woman
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poster in the Wild West Wanted: Women

Western women want it all: family, career, etc.

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méi
matchmaker
女 + 某mǒu
woman + picnic basket
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matchmaker sets up a blind date, a picnic OR matchmaking service offers free picnic basket on first date

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xié
wicked
牙yá + 阝
tooth + city walls
Character Notes

The wicked tooth that haunts the city walls. (Halloween)

Dreaming about a wicked dentist’s ghost, who lurks by the city walls at night, waiting for victims from whom he can extract a tooth. (Dangerous Dentist)

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toilet
厂 + 则zé
cliff + rule
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there is a rule about putting porta-potties too close to cliffs

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nucleus
木 + 亥hài
tree + acorn
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the nucleus of a tree is an acorn

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nǎi
milk [n.]
女 + 乃nǎi
woman + fist
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A woman squeezes her fist and gets milk.

This is also a name for your paternal grandmother. Maybe she is the one who taught her granddaughters how to milk?

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reside
尸 + 古gǔ
corpse/flag + ancient
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permanent residence of the corpse is the tomb

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xiāo
desolate
艹 + 肃
flowers + solemn
Character Notes

As Ms. Xiao looked at the solemn flowers around her at the funeral, she felt desolate.

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zhù
wish well
礻 + 兄
Eastern altar + teenager
Character Notes

Dear Ancestors, I am just a teenager, so please wish me well on my exams.

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háng
a business, *intersection
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alternatively: 彳+一+丁 queue + one/ceiling + nail, queue at the hardware business to buy the one nail available

When this character separates its left and right halves and there is another component in the middle, we'll call it "boulevard."

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shì
vision
礻shì + 见
Eastern altar + see
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"Dear Ancestors, can you see the television? We don’t know if you still have vision as spirits, but we want to share this modern wonder with you." (Petitioning the Ancestors)

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huài
bad
土 + 不
soil + no
Character Notes

land marked “no” as bad, contaminated

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