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菜
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| vegetable
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Top: plant 艹, below: to pluck 采 (A hand 爫 plucks from above at a tree 木.)
Plants you can pluck from above from a 'tree', are the vegetables.
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茶
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| tea, tea plant
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From top: plant 艹, person 人 and a tree 木
The plant (the leafs), which are plucked by a person from a tree, is tea.
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苹
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| apple, (artemisia), duckweed
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At top: plant 艹, below: flat, equal 平 (Here: see 平 as an image of an apple tree with big top and two apples)
This plant looks like an apple tree.
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药
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| medicine, drug, cure
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: promise, treaty 约 (The thread 糹/糸 at the ladle 勺 reminds to the promise.)
This plant gives the promise to be: medicine.
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懂
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| to understand, to know
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Left: feelings 忄, right: supervise, director 董 (To make plants 艹 heavy 重, they must be supervised/monitored.) [heavy 重 = A vehicle 車/车 with double wheels 二 is for heavy loads.]
Only if you can supervise (control) your feelings, you will understand.
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共
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| together, common, general
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: table 
Put the plants on the table: together.
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草
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| grass, straw
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Top: plant/grass 艹, below: early, fast 早 (When the sunrise 旦 is at the mark 丶 at the horizon 一, it is early in the morning.)
The plant that grows fast, is grass.
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花
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| flower, blossom
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: change 化 (... from a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person)
A plant that changes (when blooming) is the: flower.
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满
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| full, filled, packed, completely
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Left: water 氵, right: grass/plants 艹, pair/both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.)
Water and plants, both can make (your stomach) full.
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蓝
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| blue, indigo plant
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Top: plant 艹, below: supervise 监 (For the cut bamboo [=knife刂 & half bamboo 竹] is a bowl 皿 for its supervision)
This plant is cut like bamboo and dyes/stains in a bowl into: blue.
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节
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| joint (of bamboo), node, section, festival
jié
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Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: 卩 (This is typically a 'bent person', but here image of a node of bamboo's stem)
This grass (=bamboo 竹) has a stem with nodes, like joints.
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蕉
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| banana
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Top: plant 艹, below: burnt 焦 (bird 隹, fire 灬 [here: image of hanging bananas])
The plant only birds can reach with the hanging fruits is: the banana.
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著
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| outstanding, to make known, to prove, to write(book)
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Top: plant 艹, below: person 者 (old man 耂 in the sun 日)
Under the plant is a person, who is an outstanding writer.
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艺
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| art, skills, talent, craft
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Top: plant 艹, below: at second position 乙 (Two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.)
Plants can at the second position also be seen as art.
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落
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to fall, to drop (behind), decline
là, lào, luò, luō
艹
氵
各
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 洛 (water 氵and each 各 [= Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody])
Plants (their leaves) and water-(drops), they all fall down.
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弃
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to abandon, to relinquish, to discard, to throw away
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Top: 'new born baby'  (Character for child 子, but turned upside down: the baby at birth comes first), bottom: two hands 廾, but here exceptionally seen as: grass, plant 艹
The new born baby in the grasses was abandoned.
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苦
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer
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Top: plant 艹, below: old 古 (Pictogram of a tomb stone)
Plants (or herbs) that are old, taste bitter.
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获
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to catch, to capture, to reap, to harvest, to obtain
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: wild animal 犭(dog on the hind legs), dog 犬
(When making a trap out of sticks) Using plants wild animals or dogs can be caught.
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葡
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| grapes, Portugal
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 匍 (enwrap 勹, just now 甫) [甫 = Image of the upper body 甫 with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨]
The plant in which the grapes are enclosed, just as the upper body encloses the lungs, is are the grapes.
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萄
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| grapes
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Top: plant 艹, below: package 匋 (wrap 勹, can 缶 [Shows a mortar 凵 with a pestle 午 in it.])
A plant where it is like being "wrapped in a can" are the grapes.
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敬
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to respect, to venerate, to salute, to offer
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Left: thoughtless 苟 (Using plants 艹 for wrapping 勹 a present 口 is thoughtless.) cf: sentence 句, right: strike 攵/攴 [hand 又 with a stick 卜]
Even for a thoughtless strike you will be respected.
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范
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| casting mold, pattern, model, example
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Here: image of the casting mold with casting channels 艹, casting material 氵 and casting model 㔾
Through the casting channels the molten material flows in the model of the casting mold.
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藏
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to hide away, to conceal, to harbor, depository
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Top: plant 艹, below: 臧 (fragment 爿, official 臣, halberd 戈)
The plant is the fragment that the official with the halberd is hiding away.
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营
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to manage, nourishment, army, camp
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From top: plant/grass 艹 (here: field camp), cover 冖 (= tent), two mouths 吕
You need plants/grass and tents for the many mouths, when: managing the nutrition of the army.
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薄
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| meager, slight, weak, belittle, to look down on
bó, báo, bò
艹
尃
寸
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Top: plant 艹, below: extensive 溥 (The water 氵 announces 尃 that it is extensively widespread) Here cf. shoulder 膊: The body part 月/肉, that somehow looks like the upper body 甫 with the 'skillful hand' 寸 is the shoulder.
If you only get plants and water as provisions, the schoulders will be: meager and weak.
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英
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| brave, United Kingdom, England
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Top: plant 艹, below: center 央 (The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered)
The plant in the center is brave, England too.
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荣
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| thriving, prosperous, booming, glory
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Top: plant 艹 (here: a lot of green), bottom: cover 冖, tree 木
If there are 'lots of green' as the cover of a tree, it is: thriving.
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苗
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| sprout, seedling, vaccine
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Top: plant 艹, below: field 田
(The tiny sprouts look like grass:) The 'grass' in the field are actually the seedlings.
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哎
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| hey!, why?, look out!, How dare you!
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Left: mouth 口, right: phonetic "āi" 艾 (like AIDS 艾滋病)
From the mouth an "āi" as interjection of surprise "hey!"
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荐
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to recommend, grass, straw mat
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Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: exist 存 (With this talent 才 the child 子 can exist.)
Grass exists and [I recommend its use] as a straw mat.
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劳
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to struggle, toil, work, become exhausted
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From above: growing plant 艹, cover 冖 (here: top layer), strength 力
(Reclaiming the land:) To transform the growing plants into a flat top layer requires strength and that: you struggle.
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蔬
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| vegetables
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Top: gras, plant 艹, bottom: scatter, sparse 疏 (It is correct 正, that newborn babies [= child 子 upside down & amniotic fluid 川] scatter sparsely.)
The plants that are scattered are the (eatable) vegetables.
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宽
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| wide, broad, spacious, lenient
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Top: roof 宀, below: 苋 (plant 艹, see 见/見 (An eye 目 on legs 儿 = looking around)
From the roof, the plants, which I can see are (everywhere): widely and broadly.
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荡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to wash, to squander, to sweep away, dissolute
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: soup 汤 (Water 氵is turned by warming sunrays 易 into: a soup.)
(There are organic laundry detergents.) When you take plants to make a 'soup' you can use it for washing.
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蒂
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| stem (of fruit or flower)
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: emperor 帝 (emperor 帝 = Stand up 立 and cover 冖 yourself with cloth 巾, the emperor is coming)
The plant has an 'imperial' part: the stem.
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茫
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| uncertain, vast, without clear boundary, hazy
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: 汒 (water 氵, dead 亡 [coffin in cross section])
Whether the grass (smoking) or the water will kill us is uncertain.
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若
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to seem, like, as, if
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Top: plant 艹, below: right 右 (= The hand  that feeds the mouth 口)
The plant to the right seems "as if".
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蓄
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to store up, to grow (eg. a beard)
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: cattle breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 is used for cattle breeding [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = 玄 = thread 糸 with mysterious stone = magnet 磁]
Plants for cattle breeding have to be grown & stored.
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莫
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| negative, nobody, do not, there is none who
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The sunset is shown: The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 [= as long shadows] at sunset.) (Please note that sunrise is:  and 旦)
The sunset is perceived negatively.
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葬
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to bury (the dead), to inter
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From top: plant 艹, death 死 (If already under the earth 一 the bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕 are, this means to die.), plant 艹
Between plants the dead is buried.
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蔽
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to cover, to shield, to conceal, to screen
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Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: shabby, (humble) I 敝 (The cloth 巾 is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and is then as shabby as I am.)
On the lawn, four bits of cloth are (spread) with the stick in the hand: As a cover.
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荒
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| uncultivated, desolate, shortage, scarce
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Top: plant 艹, below: 巟 (dead 亡 (coffin in cross-section), river 川
The plants died due to the river and everything became uncultivated and barren.
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薪
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| firewood, fuel, salary
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Top: plant 艹, below: new 新 (From a standing 立 tree 木 your axe 斤 makes someting new.)
(All) plants and also standing trees are made with the axe to: firewood.
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芒
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| club-awn (=gray hair grass), tip (of a blade)
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Top: plant/grass 艹, below: death 亡
The plant for (wrapping) the dead, was the club-awn.
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茂
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| luxuriant, luxuriant nature, voluptuous
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Top: plant 艹, below: 戊 (halberd 戈 with additions)
Plants are cut/mowed with halberds for a luxuriant nature.
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董
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to supervise, to direct, director
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Top: plant 艹, below: double, heavy 重 (vehicle 車/车 with double wheels 二)
(Breeding success is labor-intensive:) To make plants heavy, they must be supervised.
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蒸
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to steam (cooking), sultry, to evaporate
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From top: plant 艹, water 水 between two boundaries 二 (= a steaming pot), fire 灬
When (cooking) plants with water between the boundaries, you need fire from below and its: steam.
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蒙
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to deceive, cheat, hoodwink, unconscious
mēng, méng, měng
蒙
艹
豕
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From top: plant 艹, cover 冖, one 一, pig 豕
Under the plants and under the cover there shall be a/one pig? You deceiver!
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蓬
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| disheveled, unkempt, overgrown, vigorous, fleabane
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Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: to encounter 逢 (The movements of a bee 蜂 [=insect of peak of growing plant] (from blossom to blossom) mean: to encounter.)
The plant which you often encounter (because it is overgrown /disheveled) is: the fleabane.
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瞒
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to conceal from, to keep (sb) in the dark
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Left: eye 目, right: grass/plant 艹; pair, both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.)
The eye sees that two connected people are (hiding) under the grass and have something to conceal.
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蔑
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| belittle, ignore, nothing
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From top: grass/plant 艹, eye 罒 (With the pupil ロ in the center), garrison 戍 (= The persons 人 (= ノ & 一) at the halberds 戈)
(When crossing the border illegally, you need to crawl lying flat.) If your eyes are below the grass, the garrison will neglect you, but also might despise you.
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苏
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to revive, awake, (Chinese basil)
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Top: plant/grass 艹, bottom: deal with/manage 办 (When the power 力 is supported 丶 from both sides, then it is dealt with.)
(very invigorating?) This plant can manage that you are revived.
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蕴
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| inner strength, contain/collect, accumulate, hold in store
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: 缊 (thread 纟/糸, sun 日, bowl 皿)
The grass has fibers/threads which, when viewed in light, are the bowl for inner strength.
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茎
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| stem, stalk
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Top: plant 艹, below: vertical 圣 (A hand 又 is vertically above the ground 土.)
The plant has a vertical part, namely the: stem.
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芽
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| sprout, bud
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: tusk 牙 (elephant's 象 head with a tusk ノ)
Both plants and tusks grow from a sprout.
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萎
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| wither, spiritless
wēi, wěi
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委
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to entrust 委 (Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted.)
The plants I entrusted you, are (all) withered.
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蔓
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| turnip, creeper, to spread, tendriled vine
mán, màn, wàn
艹
曼
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Left: plant 艹, right: handsome 曼 (.. when the sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又)
A plant that is handsome is: the spreading turnip.
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萌
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| sprout, to bud, germinate, seed
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: bright, clear 明
For a plant it is like "sun and moon", when the seed sprouts.
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苟
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| thoughtless, negligent, careless, if indeed
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Top: plant 艹; bottom: sentence 句 (wrapped 勹 mouth 口 [here: a present])
Using plants for wrapping a present 口 is: thoughtless and negligent.
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苍
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| dark blue, deep green, ash-gray, aged, housefly
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Top: grass 艹, below: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse)
Grass grows on the warehouse: It is dark blue and aged.
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菌
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| mold, mildew, germ, bacteria, fungus
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 囷 (enclosure 囗, rice plant 禾)
Plants enclosed like this rice plant will be affected by mold.
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蔚
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| resplendent, luxuriant, Artemisia japonica
wèi, yù
艹
尉
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Top: plant/grass 艹, bottom: military officer 尉 (This buttocks 尸 shows 示 his skillful hand 寸 as an officer.)
Plants that have the 'rank of an officer' are resplendent.
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潇
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| deep & clear water, confident and at ease
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Left: water 氵, right: mugwort 萧 (grass, plant 艹, respectful 肃 (hand writing four lines), here: Hand with stick 丨, stirring sth.)
(The broth is thin:) The water with a few grasses, which the hand stirs, appears deep and clear.
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蕾
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| bud
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds.
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唠
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to chatter, gossip, nag
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Left: mouth 口, right: to struggle 劳 (To transform the growing plants 艹 into a flat top layer 冖 requires strength 力 and that you struggle.)
For the mouth it is a struggle to chatter.
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蔼
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| friendly, amiable, kindly, nice
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to visit (a superior) 谒 (Words 讠of an interrogation 曷 during a questioning) [interrogation 曷 = The mouth with tongue 曰 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner  at the interrogation.]
(There are flowers in the interrogation room:) If there is a plant during the words of an interrogation, it is: friendly.
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藐
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to despise, small, variant of 渺
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 貌 (hairy animal 豸 or var. of pig 豕 weiß 白, Beine 儿)
In the plant is a hairy animal, white with legs: I despise it.
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菲
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JLPT no HSK |
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| luxuriant (plant growth), Philippines 菲律宾
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: not/denial 非 (opposing wings 羽) Here: twice as growing plant 丰
Grass and both growing plants are proliferating luxuriantly.
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莹
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JLPT no HSK |
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| luster of gems
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From top: grass 艹, cover 冖, jade 玉
In the grass is covered a 'jade' with: the luster of gems.
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荫
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JLPT no HSK |
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| shade
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: moon, rearside, Yin 阴 (The hill 阝is on its "moon-side" 月 shady, thus the: Yin)
Only grass can grow at the "moon"-side of the hill: in the shade.
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葛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| kudzu (edible bean), twiner-plant, entanglement
gé, gě
艹
曷
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Top: Plant/grass 艹, below: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.)
The plant with the tendrils, like the tangles in an interrogation is the: kudzu-bean.
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萍
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JLPT no HSK |
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| duckweed
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 泙 (water 氵, flat, equal 平)
The plant that is on the water drifting flatly is the: duckweed.
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莽
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JLPT no HSK |
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| thick weeds, luxuriant growth, impertinent
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From top: plant 艹, dog 犬 (The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶), plant 艹
If a dog can hide in these grasses, it is thick weeds.
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莲
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lotus
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Top: growing plant 艹, below: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.)
The plant (which floats on the water), but is connected (to the ground) is the: lotus.
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茨
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to thatch (a roof), Caltrop or puncture vine
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Top: plant 艹, below: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠 [yawning person], what comes next?)
When a plant is the "next" to each other [= they lie close adjacent], this is a thatched roof.
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萝
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JLPT no HSK |
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| radish, turnip, creeping plant
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to sift 罗 (with the net 罒 to sift until evening 夕)
The plants that need to be sift are the radish/turnip.
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茵
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mattress, a cushion, Skimmia japonica
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: reason, cause 因 (For the fence 囗 around the tall person 大 is a reason.)
Plants are spread out rectangularly 囗 so that a big 大 person can use them as a mattress.
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藤
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JLPT no HSK |
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| tangle of vines, rattan, cane
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Top: plant 艹, below: 滕 (body 月, border guard 龹 (person 人 with high lifted arms 丷 and two barrier bars 二), water 水
Plants that pull themselves up on bodies, like raised arms of a security guard and need water are: the climbing vines.
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蓉
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lotus
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Left: plant 艹, right: appearance 容 (The houses 宀 in the valley 谷 have an appearance.)
(With the big pink blossom:) The plant for your good appearance is: The lotus.
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芳
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JLPT no HSK |
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| fragrant
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Top: plant 艹, below: direction, square 方
(Fragrance spread by the wind) When plants act in one direction, they are fragrant.
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萨
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Bodhisattva, enlightenment, Buddhist god
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: hill 阝, and produce 产 (standing 立 on the cliff 厂)
Over the plants and the hills, I am standing on a cliff: with the Buddhistic enlightenment.
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菩
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Bodhisattva
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: to spit 咅 (To stand 立 with an open mouth 口 and spit)
Under plants, he stands up and opens his mouth: Bodhisattva.
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菱
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JLPT no HSK |
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| water-chestnut (caltrop)
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom slowly, dawdle 夌 (Who walks over the earth 土 with legs 儿 that are crossed 夂, is dawdling.)
The plant that dawdles (when growing?) is the water-chestnut.
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荷
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to carry on shoulder or back, burden, lotus
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: "what" 何? (Two persons 亻, 丁 carrying a load 口 with that bar 一
For the transport of the plants the two persons use their shoulders to carry that load.
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薛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| wormwood like grass (classical)
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture)
Made of plants and aggressive like torture: The wormwood (absinthe)
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苑
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JLPT no HSK |
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| park, pasture, garden
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Left: plant 艹, right: 夗 (evening 夕, slumped person 㔾)
With the plants he stayed until the evening when he slumped, in the: park.
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蔡
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JLPT no HSK |
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| surname Cai
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Top: plant /grass 艹, bottom: sacrifice 祭 (The body 月/肉 is put by hand on the altar 示 as a sacrifice)
Plants are sacrificed by the family: Cai.
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莺
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JLPT no HSK |
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| oriole or warblers
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Top: grass 艹, below: cover 冖 and bird 鸟/鳥
In the grass are covered these birds: the oriole or warbler.
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葱
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JLPT no HSK |
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| leek, scallion, green onion
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From top: grass, plant 艹, 怱 (= hurry 匆 and heart 心) [hurry 匆 = When packing the suitcase, the wrapped 勹 long things ノノ (= pants) got wrinkles because I was in a hurry)]
The plant that is in a hurry (= grows quickly) and is closest to my heart is the leek.
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孽
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JLPT no HSK |
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| crime, sin, disaster, evil
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Top: 薛 (grass 艹, anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture), bottom: child 子
In the grass, anal penetration with a child is a: crime.
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芦
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JLPT no HSK |
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| reed, rush, hurry
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Left: growing plant 艹, right: sliding door 戸
The plant (for building) a sliding door is the reed, where you can then rush through.
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莉
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JLPT no HSK |
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| jasmine
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: profit, favorable 利 (Harvesting rice plants 禾 with a knife刂 is favorable and brings profit.)
The plant that brings profit is: jasmine.
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瑛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| (crystal), lustrous
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Left: king/jade 王, right: brave, England 英 (The plant 艹 in the center 央 is brave.)
The jade is 'brave' if it is lustrous.
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菊
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JLPT no HSK |
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| chrysanthemum
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From top: plant 艹, 匊 (wrap 勹, rice 米)
The plant that is first wrapped and then blossoms like the hanzi for rice 米 is: the chrysanthemum.
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蒋
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Jiang (family name), refers to Chiang Kai-shek
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: commander 将 (A simple bed 丬, a hand reaching down 爫 and a skillful hand 寸: This is a commander.)
Where formerly only grass grew, he became the commander: Chiang Kai-shek
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芬
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JLPT no HSK |
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| fragrance, perfume
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces)
(The smell of freshly mown grass:) When grass is divided, it causes fragrance.
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苛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| severe, pitiless, harsh, exacting
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Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: possibility 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.)
If in the grass, someone (shall find) a nail only using his mouth, you are severe and pitiless to him.
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茜
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Indian madder, Rubia cordifolia, munjeet
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: west 西 (sun 日 moves 儿 below horizon 一 at sunset in the west)
The plant with the red (= the afterglow at sunset at the west) is the Indian madder .
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芸
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JLPT no HSK |
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| common rue (Ruta graveolens), books and libraries
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: cloud 云 (= They can be arranged in layers 二 and form vortices/eddies 厶.)
A plant that spreads like a cloud (through the twisting shoots) is the rue/bean.
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苔
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JLPT no HSK |
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| moss, lichen, coating
tāi, tái
艹
台
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: stage, tribune 台 (The nose 厶 is above the mouth 口 as if on a tribune.)
The plant for the stage is the: moss.
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芯
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JLPT no HSK |
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| wick, core, lamp pith
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Plant 艹, heart 心
The plant's "heart" (= inner fibers) is its core and suitable as a wick.
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芭
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JLPT no HSK |
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| banana
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to hope 巴 (Behind the doorknob 巴 you may hope.)
The plant you are hoping for is: The banana.
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茄
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JLPT no HSK |
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| eggplant
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
(There is still space in the garden) The plant, we should add is: the eggplant.
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荆
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JLPT no HSK |
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| thistles and thorns
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Above: plant 艹, bottom: punishment 刑 (Who openly 开 uses his knife 刂 is punished.)
The plant, that can punish, are the thorns of the thistle.
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薇
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: tiny 微 (Go 彳 on the mountain 山 to the one 一 table 几 and smash 攵 it into tiny pieces.)
The plant that is tiny is this fern.
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莎
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JLPT no HSK |
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| kind of sedge grass
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Left: growing plant 艹, right: sand, gravel 沙 (In [unclear] water 氵is always a little 少 sand.)
A plant for sandy (grounds) is this: sedge grass.
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苇
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JLPT no HSK |
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| reed, rush, Phragmites communis
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Top: plant 艹, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather)
The plant that is cut in a bundle (in a pair of two 二) with the knife 刀 is the: reed.
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芜
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JLPT no HSK |
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| overgrown with weeds, wilderness
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: denial 无 (Legs 儿 crossed out twice 二 as denial)
Where the plants are denied: in the wilderness.
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葫
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JLPT no HSK |
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| bottle-gourd, calabash, allium scorodoprasum
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Top: plant 艹, below: beard, non-Han-person 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月/肉 are the beards of the non-Han people.)
(The skin can be used as a drinking-vessel.) The plant where the 'old body' is used: The bottle-gourd.
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萧
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JLPT no HSK |
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| miserable, desolate, dreary, Chinese mugwort
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: respectful 肃 (here: hand with spoon 丨 stirring a "soup")
The plant for making a "soup", is the medicine mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), used when you feel miserable.
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艾
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to stop or cut short, phonetic "ai", like AIDS 艾滋病
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: cross 乂
When the plants are (cut) cross-like on each other, it means "end" as in AIDS.
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蕊
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JLPT no HSK |
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| stamen, pistil
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 惢
The plant has its 3 hearts in the stamen.
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菇
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mushroom
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: paternal aunt 姑 (the woman 女 who is old 古)
The plants (collected) by the old women, are the: mushrooms.
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菁
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JLPT no HSK |
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| luxuriant, lush, leek flower
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: green, blue, young 青 (Growing plants  appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
A plant hat is green and young, is: luxuirant.
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躇
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JLPT no HSK |
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| hesitate, indecisive
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: outstanding 著 (Under the plant 艹 is a person 者, who is an outstanding writer.)
When the foot (shall go) over the plants, the person is hesitating.
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茸
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JLPT no HSK |
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| fluffy, hairy, confused, luxuriant growth
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: ear 耳
The 'plants' at the ear are fluffy hair.
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莱
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JLPT no HSK |
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| name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot)
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Top: growing plant 艹, bottom: to come 来 (Because of ten 十 grains of rice 米, I shall come?)
(This weed) is a plant that always comes again, it is the: 'fat hen'
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薯
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JLPT no HSK |
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| potato, yam
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: government office 署 (The eyes 罒 above the persons 者 are a government office.)
(Potatoes are harvested with a rake [here: 罒 net], which is used to furrow the ground.) The plant that is (harvested) with the rake of a person is the: potato.
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荧
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JLPT no HSK |
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| a glimmer, twinkling, fluorescence, dazzled
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From above: plant 艹, cover 冖, fire 火
If plants are a cover for the fire, it appears glimmering.
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萤
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JLPT no HSK |
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| firefly, glow-worm
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From top: plant, grass 艹, cover 冖, insect 虫
The grass covers this insect: the firefly.
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蒜
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JLPT no HSK |
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| garlic
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 2x to show 示
(Think of its smell when both: eating and farting) The plant that shows twice is the garlic.
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藉
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JLPT no HSK |
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| by means of, to insult, sleeping mat
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: rely on, plow 耤 (tree 木 with many branches 丰), right: old days 昔
It is growing the plant as a tree with many branches if in old days (=before), the plow furrows 一 were done. This is by means of them.
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萃
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JLPT no HSK |
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| gather, assemble, collect, dense, grassy
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Top: grass, plant 艹, below: soldier, suddenly 卒 (Between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly.)
(with good camouflage) From the plants, the soldiers can suddenly come together.
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蘑
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mushroom
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to polish, sharpen 磨 (With hemp 麻 stones 石 can be polished.)
This plant grows at the hemp and looks like a stone: the mushroom.
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茹
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to eat, (extended meaning) to endure
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Left: plant 艹, right: as such 如 (Women's 女 mouths 口 are as such.)
The plant is taken by the woman with the mouth, when: Eating.
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藩
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JLPT no HSK |
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| a fence (for defense), a pale, border, vassal state
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Top: plant 艹, below: water for rinsing 潘 (water 氵, foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [= rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.)
Plants or water can be against the foreign, a fence or border.
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芝
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JLPT no HSK |
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| sesame (seed)
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: possessive particle 'this' 之 variant of plant (suggestion: read as a zigzag path)
A plant that is also grows along paths is: sesame.
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芙
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lotus (=芙蓉), Hibiskus
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: husband 夫 (The big 大 person with the extra-caring arms 一 is the husband.)
The plant, the husband brings, is: lotus.
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葵
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JLPT no HSK |
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| sunflower
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: tenth of 10 heavenly trunks 癸 (volcano 癶, sky, heaven 天)
The plant with a flower like a volcano that grows towards the sky is: the sunflower.
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茧
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JLPT no HSK |
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| cocoon, callus
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Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: insect 虫
At the plant (hangs) an insect in form of: a cocoon.
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茅
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JLPT no HSK |
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| reeds, rushes [BOT.]
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: barbed spear/lance 矛
Grass as long as a barbed spear is: reeds.
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蕃
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JLPT no HSK |
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| luxuriant, flourishing, to reproduce, to proliferate
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Top: growing plant 艹, below: foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [= rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.)
Plants that are foreign (invasive species) are particularly flourishing.
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苯
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JLPT no HSK |
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| benzol (chemistry), benzene
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
Plants are the origin of: benzol.
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荀
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JLPT no HSK |
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| (surname Xun)
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 10-days period 旬 (When the sun 日 is enwrapped 勹 (by clouds), then often for a duration of 10 days)
Phonetic 旬 = xún in the family name 荀.
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蟒
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JLPT no HSK |
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| python
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Left: insect 虫, right: thick weeds 莽 (If a dog 犬 can hide in the grasses 艹,艹, it is thick weeds.)
The 'insect' in the thick weed, that (eats) the dog is: the python.
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蒲
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JLPT no HSK |
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| bullrush, divers reed grasses
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Top: growing plant 艹, below: river bank 浦 (water 氵, just now 甫(Image of upper body 甫 with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨 and a harvesting tool 丶)
The plant of the water that is harvested by a person (you only see his upper body), is the: reed grass.
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芹
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Chinese celery
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: axe 斤
The plant that is (harvested) with an axe is: the celery.
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荃
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JLPT no HSK |
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| (fragrant plant)
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: all, every 全 (The person 人 of the king 王 means all)
The plant everybody senses is: fragrant.
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茬
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JLPT no HSK |
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| stubble land after crop has been taken, an opportunity
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to exist, (located) at 在 (The talents 才 on earth 土 exist in doing ...) [talent 才 = when the big man 大 balances on one foot.]
(New) plants can exist here: on the stubble land.
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苞
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JLPT no HSK |
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| flower calyx, petal, bud, luxuriant, profuse
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Top: plant 艹, below: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
At the plants the 'enwrapping' are the flower calyx.
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荔
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JLPT no HSK |
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| litchi
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 劦 (3x force 力)
The plant with the triple power is the: litchi.
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藻
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JLPT no HSK |
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| seaweed, aquatic grasses, elegant
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: bath 澡 (in the water 氵you assemble 喿 for a bath.) [assemble 喿 = three beaks 口 of birds assembled in a tree 木]
Plants that are assembled in the water is: seaweed.
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萦
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JLPT no HSK |
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| wind around
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From top: plant 艹, cover 冖, thread 糸
A plant that covers (the ground) is like a thread that is: winding around.
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藕
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JLPT no HSK |
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| root of lotus
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 耦 (tree with many branches 耒), scorpion 禺 (carapace 田, insect 虫 and long legs 冂)
The plant with the many branches at the scorpions is: the roots of lotus.
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蓓
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JLPT no HSK |
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| (flower) bud
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Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: (two, three ..)-fold 倍 (The persons 人 spit 咅 many-fold.)
The plant multiplies with the bud.
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荼
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JLPT no HSK |
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| thistle, common sowthistle, bitter (taste), cruel
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: excess, remain 余 (A heap  is still on the altar 示, thus in excess.)
(The cattle do not eat it:) The plant that remains is: the thistle.
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蔷
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JLPT no HSK |
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| wild rose
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Top: plant 艹, below: stingy 啬 (He who constantly turns his gold 金 around 回 is stingy.) - here: squeeze in 夹 [A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=2x人; cf:薔) is squeezed]
(due to its thorns) The plant that squeezes-in if you rotate in it: is the wild rose.
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蘸
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to dip in (ink, sauce etc)
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: 醮 (alcohol 酉, scorched, burnt, charred 焦) [焦 = The bird 隹 is on fire 灬 to be burnt.]
A plant with alcohol will burn, even if you (only have briefly): dipped it into it.
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蔗
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JLPT no HSK |
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| sugar cane
zhè
艹
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: commonly, ordinary 庶 (A building 广 with various objects 廿 is in fire 灬 which commonly can happen.)
(for sweetening) The plant from which ordinary things are made: is the sugar cane.
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葆
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dense foliage, to preserve, to cover, conceal
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: protect 保 (The person 亻builds a fence 口 over tree 木 to protect it.)
The plants are protected by a dense foliage.
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