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jiè
borrow
亻 + 昔
persona + times past
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Is your persona someone you could count on in times past for borrowing/loaning?

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xiū
repair [v.]
亻 + 丨 + 彡
persona + stick + bird tail
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your persona with a cane out with the men in the park getting his bird cage repaired

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wild [adj.]
里 + 予yǔ
computer + fishing spear
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This character represents your transformation into the wild. You gave up your computer and embraced a fishing spear. (Hunter-Gatherer)

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dùn
pause [n./v.]
屯tún + 页
stockpile + page/head
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stockpile makes you pause to turn your head during the tour OR The dentist's ghost carries a victim’s head back to his haunt and pauses at his stockpile to grab a new hook.

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shì
generation
廿 + 十shí
twenty + ten
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30 years is a generation.

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𠂆

*drag
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厂chǎng cliff

nèi
internal
冂 + 人
hood + person
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introvert with their hood up

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liàn
refine
火 + E jiǎn
fire + covered rickshaw
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rickshaw runner’s muscles on fire

refined by fire when his covered rickshaw burned up: lost his job, had to start afresh

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zéi
burglar
贝 + 戎
shells + padding
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Burglars are in it for the shells, especially in wartime. This one is padding the guns he is selling to the enemy (贼 zéi also means “traitor”).

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qiú
request [v.]
一 + 氺 + 丶
one/ceiling + snowflake + drop
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kid buried in snow with one finger sticking up requesting help

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yíng
camp [n.]
K yíng + 吕
rooftop garden + spine
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It takes a lot of spine to operate a camp on your rooftop.

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superintend
叔shū + 目
uncle + eye
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Uncle Schubert uses his eye to superintend the younger crowd.

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xiá
red sky
⻗ + 叚jiǎ
weather + copycat
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The pollution makes a pretty rosy sky in the mornings and evenings. How is China so good at fakes?

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*horns
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wéi
*enclose
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as a component: “围字框” or "方匡" or “国字框”

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口 kǒu mouth

yán
prolong
廴yǐn + 丿 + 止
stretch + slash + footprint
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prolong the stretch by dragging your footprint (to reach further)

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mud
氵 + 尼ní
water + Buddhist nun
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Picture a Buddhist nun splashing in watery dirt or mud.

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xiāo
put up for sale
钅 + 肖xiào
metal + resemble
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Picture a metal for-sale sign in front of the house in the shape of a house.

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gāo
tall
亠 + 口 + 冂 + 口
top hat + mouth + hood + mouth
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This is a tall man costume with someone on someone else’s shoulders. The guy on top wears a top hat to make him even taller. The guy on the bottom wears a hood.

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