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分 |
to divide, to separate, to distinguish, part, fraction
Top: eight 八, bottom: sword 刀 Use eight swords for dividing. |
小 |
small, tiny, few, young
A person 亅 with the arms 八 close to the body appears: small. |
八 |
eight, 8
Side view of two hands with the four fingers (without thumb) streched which means eight in total. |
六 |
six, 6
One 丶 plus two 八 makes three. With a cut 一 it is divided, which provides six parts. |
兴 |
to flourish, thrive, to become popular
Top: flowers  , below: table The flowers on the table are blooming and thriving. |
公 |
public, collectively owned, common, male (animal)
Eight 八, nose 厶 Eight noses stand for the public. |
只 |
just one of a several, unique, merely, only
Image of a person consisting only of a mouth 口 and two legs 八 This person has a huge mouth, which is only one and unique. |
具 |
tool, device, equipment, instrument, to possess
An eye 目 and a table The eye sees on the table: a tool. |
兵 |
soldiers, an army, military
Top: hill 丘 (An axe 斤 in the ground 一 as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill.), below: eight 八 At the hill are eight soldiers. |
兽 |
beast, animal, bestial, ferocious
From top: out 丷 (here: widely), rice field 田, one 一 mouth 口 Widely open like a rice field is one mouth of the beast. |
叭 |
sound of trumpet, horn or sharp noise (gunfire etc)
Left: mouth 口, right: eight 八 From a "mouth" that widens [towards the lower end] like an eight 八 comes the "sound of a trumpet". |
趴 |
to lie on one's stomach, to lean forward
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: eight 八 (here: two legs) When the feet are aside to the legs, you are lying on the stomach. |
睦 |
friendly, harmonious, amicable, peaceful relations
Left: eye 目, right: 坴 (eight 八, 2 x land 土) The view on all that land is friendly and harmonious. |
扒 |
to cling to, hold on to, push aside, strip off, rake up
Left: hand 扌, right: eight 八, (here variant of: grab/catch 抓 [The hand 扌 as a claw 爪 for: grabbing or arresting] The hand is claw-like for: clinging or holding. |
兮 |
(exclamation particle in old Chinese)
"Eight 八 seaweeds 丂" as exclamation |
冀 |
to hope, wish, (abbr. for Hebei 河北)
Top: north 北 (2 people sit back-to-back because it is cold in: the north.), bottom: extraordinary 異 (Fields 田 where the plants 艹 are growing on a table  [=raised garden bed], look different and strange) Also in the north, our fields shall be extraordinary: This is what we hope. |
逵 |
crossroads, thoroughfare
Left: movement 辶, right: 坴 (2x earth 土, in the middle: two ways 八) For the movement of two ways between two 'earths', there is: a crossing. |
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