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qīng
dragonfly (front end)
虫 + 青qīng
insect + green-blue
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green-blue insect

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*slaughterhouse
亼 + 刖yuè
meeting + butcher
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meeting of butchers at the slaughterhouse

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hòu
behind
𠂆 + 一 + 口
drag + one + mouth
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Imagine a back seat driver behind you dragging you down.

Someone is dragging behind in the chanting.

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同 tóng same

crane
冖 + 隹 + 鸟
crown + special bird + bird
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The crane is the crowned royal special bird of all birds.

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hàn
Han
氵 + 又
water + right hand
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Legend says the Han people came from the Yellow River: picture a right hand coming out of the water.

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lüè
abbreviation
田 + 各
field + each
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each field has its own abbreviations and jargon

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hún
wonton (A)
饣 + 昆kūn
food + descendants
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wonton recipe passed down to the descendants

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sān
three
一 + 二
one + two
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qiān
thousand
丿 + 十
slash + ten
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干gān dry/clothesline

profession
並 - 亠
side by side - top hats
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start your profession side by side with others, all without top hats

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day, *sun
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as a component: “日字旁”

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曰 yuē sayeth

diào
drop [v.]
扌 + 卓
hand + eminent
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The eminent sun wizard opens his hand and the sunflower magic wand drops.

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kǒng
cavity
子 + 乚
child + dental hook
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On dental visits as a child, more often that not, the dental hook finds a cavity.

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kào
lean on
告gào + 非
declare + jail cell
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lean on this policy: declare jail to be the main deterrent to crime

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pave
钅 + 甫fǔ
metal + injection
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Picture a modern paving machine with metal rollers injected with asphalt.

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fox
犭 + 瓜
Aesop + melon
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”The Fox and the Melon“ (Adapted from Aesop) One afternoon a fox was walking through a garden and spotted a big, round melon. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," said he. Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and landed on the melon, but it just rolled a bit. Again the fox took a few steps back, ran, jumped, and tried to crack the melon open but still failed. Finally giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, “It's probably unripe anyway," and proceeded to walk away. Moral: It is easy to despise what you cannot have. (Fables)

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háo
milli-
V + 毛máo
tiara + fur
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Princess Bling makes a math class breakthrough when her teacher says "a million" is like the number of hairs in her fur stole.

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zào
soap
白 + 七
white + seven
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this white soap gets you seven times cleaner than other brands

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academic discipline
禾hé + 斗
grain + big dipper
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ancient academic disciplines of agriculture and astronomy

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