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yàn
swallow [n.]
廿 + 口 + 北 + 灬
twenty + mouth + north + cooking fire
Character Notes

swallow soup: a northern dish made from twenty bird mouths

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duǒ
[m.w. for clouds and flowers]
几 + 木
wind + tree
Character Notes

The wind blows the clouds and a tree shades the flowers.

The wind can shape a cloud to look like a flower or shake a tree into a shower of leaves.

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朵duo earlobe

kuà
*unicyle
车 - 一
vehicle - “an axle”
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shì
*Eastern altar
altar modified
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the strokes could represent a picture/statue on a shelf, a sash, an incense stick, a piece of fruit

as a component: “示字旁”

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衤yī clothing

zhū
vermilion
丶zhǔ + 未
drop + not yet
Character Notes

God gives them specific instructions about the trees in the garden. There is one with very tempting vermilion (bright red) fruit from which they are not supposed to eat. Can you see the fruit hanging on the branch of the tree in this character? (Bible Series)

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zhòng
heavy
千 + 里
thousand + computer
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a thousand computers are heavy

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xuě
snow [n.]
⻗ + 彐
weather + broom
Character Notes

you can sweep snow but not rain

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péi
cultivate
土 + 咅pòu
soil + comedian
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So, there was this farmer…

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hùn
mix [v.]
氵 + 昆kūn
water + descendants
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They claimed you could water down your descendants by mixing with other cultures.

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zhēn
needle
钅 + 十
metal + needle
Character Notes

Picture a metal needle.

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páng
crab (front end)
虫 + 旁páng
insect + side
Character Notes

walks sideways

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mài
blood vessels
月 + 永
body part + eternity
Character Notes

the body part that goes for eternity are your blood vessels; in eternity, our blood vessels will carry some other substance

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creek
氵 + 爫 + 幺 + 大
water + claw + cocoon + large dog
Character Notes

to remember the order of the components, picture a claw coming down to grab a cocoon that is stuck on a large dog's back (of course, he is playing by a creek)

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zāng
dirty
月 + 庄zhuāng
body part + hamlet
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body parts (like feet) get dirty in Hobbitville

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biàn
counter attack
辛 + 辛
peppery + peppery
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You can counter attack a peppery accusation with one of your own.

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qiān
lead along
大 + 冖 + 牛
large dog + crown + cow
Character Notes

There is a large dog that is the seeing eye dog for the royal cow, who is now blind, leading him along.

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xiào
school
木 + 交jiāo
wood + mingle
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one-room wooden schoolhouse where different ages mingle

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shěn
auntie
女 + 审shěn
woman + painstaking
Character Notes

(This is your father's younger brother's wife, so picture her.) This auntie painstakingly grows beets inside her house.

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easy
日 + 勿
sun/day + knot
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sewing by the window, easier to tie knots with the sunlight

It is easy to waste your day getting tied in knots over things out of your control.

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