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shǔ
belong to
尸 + 禹yǔ
corpse/flag + exterminator
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he belongs to the dead exterminators

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lake
氵 + 胡hú
water + goatee
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you grow a goatee at the lake

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jì/jué
*rice sack
米 + 𠃊
rice + sack
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huò
seize
艹 + 犭 + 犬
flowers + Aesop + small dog
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Flowers Seized from the Small Dog”  Pekingese was fulfilling her dreams one by one. After she was released from prison, and her podcast had gone viral, she was now receiving speaking engagement invitations regularly. She should have been happy, but she had a recurring nightmare. She often dreamed that just as her speech had ended, as the audience was applauding and she was being presented with flowers, they were seized from her paws, and the cheers turned to boos as Pekingese slunk off the stage. Moral: Seize the day because the night might seize you.

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fèi
discard
广 + 发fā
cave + friend’s hair
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Also piling up in your cave is a bunch of your friend’s hair. Gross. Discard it. (Hunter-Gatherer)

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huàn
*actor
⺈ + 央
mask + center
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the actor wears a mask on center stage

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already, *snakeskin
snake modified
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Picture a snake already starting to shed its skin.

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overturn
西 + 彳 + 复fù
Wild West + queue + duplicate
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Focus of the Wild West economy has been overturned to tourism, where people line up to see modern duplicates of old-time scenes.

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ruì
auspicious
王 + 耑
jewel + mountain man
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mountain man has a lucky charm jewel

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wàng
expect
亡wáng + 月 + 王wáng
deceased + moon + king
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a deceased moon is a new moon, new expectations for the new king

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coffee—first drop
口 + 加jiā
mouth + add
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taste the coffee and need to add something

"He adds coffee to his warm-up routine to sail him through the first set." (Trumpeter Wu)

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yǐng
shadow [n.]
景jǐng + 彡
scenery + bird tail
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shadows make scenery on the wall in the shape of a bird tail

alternatively: 日+京+彡 sun + capital + bird tail, on a sunny day in the capital, the tail of the rooster weather vane (on top of the capitol building) casts a shadow

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cut off [v.]
害 + 刂
harm + sword
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You harm someone with a sword when you cut off their arm.

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belly
月 + 土tǔ
body part + soil
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my belly hurts, I swallowed dirt OR pregnant woman eating dirt

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spleen
月 + 卑
body part + lowly
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the “lowly” body part that just recycles blood, but really controls your temper

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*clothing
clothing modified
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as a component: “衣字旁”

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礻shì Eastern altar

luàn
chaos
舌 + 乚
tongue + dental hook
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Dentist is poking around with his dental hook and hooks your tongue. Chaos!! Pain!

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fēng
plentiful, *bushes
grow up modified
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nián
year
午 + 匚
noon + box
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Sleep in till noon on New Year’s day, then start checking the boxes of your New Year’s resolutions.

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