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shuò
luminous
火huǒ + 乐
fire + happy music
Character Notes

Dancing fire is a kind of luminous happy music.

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tǎn
blanket
毛 + 炎yán
fur + inflammation
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Picture being allergic to a fur blanket: it inflames you.

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yān
inundate
氵 + 奄yǎn
water + electrocute
Character Notes

Was the cause of death inundation of water (drowning?) or electrocution?

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líng
mausoleum
阝 + 夌líng
pinnacle + mole
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Think of a famous mole, maybe the one from The Wind in the Willows. His mausoleum in under a pinnacle, of course.

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smear on
扌 + 末mò
hand + last
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Use your hand to smear on (or off) the wax until the last inch is polished.

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chuǎn
wheeze
口 + 耑duān
mouth + mountain man
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Picture a mountain man in such a “rush” that he is wheezing after running around the mountain.

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float
氵 + 孚fú
water + fledgling
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Picture a fledgling learning to float on water.

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*fledgling
爫 + 子
claw + child
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Picture a mother bird holding its fledgling child in its claws.

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exaggeration
八 + 丂
eight/animal legs + 5
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Eight is an exaggeration of 5.

His exaggeration of the size of the animal legs was 5 times their actual size.

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dàng
licentious
艹 + 汤tāng
flowers + soup
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Picture a love potion flower soup.

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jiàn
splatter
氵 + 贱jiàn
water + cheap
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Picture a cheap water gun splattering the shooter with water.

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gěng
stalk [n]
木 + 更gèng
tree + even more
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If you want even more tree to grow, you have to protect the stalk.

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xiè
unload
午 + 止 + 卩jié
noon + footprint + stamped
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Have you seen the classic movie Charade? Picture the criminal unloading a piece of evidence (a stamped original) at noon, at an assigned footprint.

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guàn
stork
艹 + 吅 + 隹
flowers + chatterbox + special bird
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Picture a stork with flowers on her head happily chatting to the turkey about last night’s delivery.

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guàn
jar
缶 + 雚guàn
clay pot + stork
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Picture a jar, a modern version of a clay pot decorated with a stork.

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dié
saucer
石 + 枼yè
stone + family tree
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Picture a stone saucer that has been passed around the family tree.

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gān
abashed
尢 + 监jiān
lame + supervise
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The lame person felt abashed that she had to be supervised.

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zhuó
scorch
火 + 勺sháo
fire + ladle
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Picture fire scorching a ladle.

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zhàng
bloated
月 + 长zhǎng
body part + grow
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Picture a body part growing as it bloats.

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