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bāo
wrap [v.]
勹bāo + 已
bound up + snakeskin
Character Notes

package wrapped or bound up in snakeskin

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zhào
illuminate
日 + 召zhào + 灬
sun + summon + cooking fire
Character Notes

summon the sun or cooking fire to illuminate (expose) photographic paper

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plan [n.]
讠 + 十
microphone + ten/needle
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You say in a microphone: “Here’s the plan” and list ten ways to avoid getting a shot.

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zèng
make a present of
贝 + 曾céng
shells + gremlin
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should have made a present of shells rather than a gremlin

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jīng
startled
忄 + 京jīng
meme + capital
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meme of startled congresspeople at the capital

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liè
hunt
犭 + 昔
Aesop + times past
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"Hunting in Times Past" Here we’re talking about the kind of hunting that was popular in times past with an Aesop to help locate the prey. Moral: Dogs have better noses than we do. (Fables)

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shàng
above
卜 + 一
magic wand + floor
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magic wand hovering above the floor

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héng
horizontal
木 + 黄huáng
tree/wood + yellow
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tree becomes yellow when it has fallen down horizontal

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mǐn
sensitive
每měi + 攵
every + taskmaster
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Everytaskmaster must be sensitive to a bride’s true needs (not just what she says she wants).

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dāo
*sword
knife modified
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as a component: “立刀旁”

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leather [n.]
廿 + 口 + 十
twenty + mouth + needle
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make twenty holes with a needle in a leather belt

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jīng
whale
鱼 + 京jīng
fish + capital
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in the fish capital reigns a whale

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lián
inexpensive
广 + 兼jiān
cave + double
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most inexpensive house for someone with double jobs is a cave

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nǎi
only then, *fist
right hand modified
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child
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as a component: “子字旁”

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nán
difficult
又 + 隹
right hand + special bird
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difficult to catch/stuff a turkey with your right hand

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táo
grapes (B)
艹 + 匋táo
flowers + lidded clay pot
Character Notes

Pu and Tao are sitting under the flowering arbor where grapes are bound up in clusters. Pu uses a needle to inject the juice intravenously and Tao drinks the juice from a lidded clay pot.

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bàn
petal
辡biàn + 瓜
counter attack + melon
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as they counter attack with a melon, petals from the blossom fall OR on either side of the melon are petals hiding chili peppers

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ruò
as if
艹 + 右yòu
flowers + right
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We can put flowers on the right to cover that up, as if they were meant to be there.

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