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题 |
topic, problem for discussion, subject, to inscribe
Left: correct, indeed 是 (sun 日, correct 正), right: page, leaf 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The correct head is the topic of the discussion. |
颜 |
color, face, countenance
Left: elegant 彦 (He stands 立 on the cliff 厂 and his hair 彡 look elegant.), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) He has an elegant head with color in the face. |
顾 |
to take into consideration, to look after
Left: distress 厄 (below the cliff 厂 a crouching person 㔾), right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) (plan ahead) A (potential) distress should (in your head) been taken into consideration. |
须 |
beard, mustache, feeler (of insect), to have to
Left: hair 彡, right: page, leaf (页/頁= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The hair of the head can be a beard. |
夏 |
summer
From top: cover 一 (against the sun), I, myself 自 (The emphasized ノ eye 目 is myself.), upturned foot (=sitting cross-legged) 夂 Covered (= in the shade) I myself sit cross-legged, because it is summer. |
首 |
head, leader, chief
Image of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. Thick eyebrows at the head of the leader |
顺 |
sequence, order, to obey, to follow, favorable
Left: river 川, right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Just as the river directs the water, the head gives things the order / sequence. |
页 |
page, sheet, leaf
Simplified image of a head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一), now generalized to: page, sheet |
烦 |
to bother, to trouble, to feel vexed
Left: fire 火, right: page, leaf, head 页/頁 (=head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Like a fire in my head, that's how you bother me. |
预 |
beforehand, in advance, predict, forecast
Left: to give 予 (The bent person マ has a nail 丁 to give.), right: page, leaf (页/頁= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) "To give your head" to a subject means planning like 'in advance' or 'beforehand'. |
硕 |
huge, massive, large, big
Left: stone 石 (At the cliff 厂 is a stone 口), right: page, leaf, head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) A stone like a head such huge. |
颗 |
small spheres: pearls, grains, satellites, planets
Left: fruit, result 果 (= The "rice field" 田 at the tree 木), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) From fruits to heads: Counter for small round things. |
频 |
frequently, often, repetitious
Left: pace, step 步 (Stop 止 a little 少 when: walking.), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) (Better results in learning:) For the steps use your head to repeat them frequently. |
领 |
neck, collar, to lead, to receive
Left: order, command 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩, was ordered), right: page,sheet developed of a head (页/頁 = head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) It follows the orders of the head: The neck. |
顶 |
apex, to carry on the head, summit
Left: nail 丁, right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The nail has a head and that's its apex. |
顿 |
to pause, meal, bout, to stop
Left: barracks 屯, (Where previously plants 艹 and sprouts 乚 were, they build barracks 一), right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) (Soldiers on march need regular breaks) At the barracks the heads join to pause and for meals. |
项 |
back of neck, item, thing, term sum (of money), projects
Left: construct 工 (here: image of a neck with: head 一, neck | and shoulders 一), right: page, leaf (页/頁= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The neck with the head stands for neck or projects. |
厦 |
mansion, tall building, rear annex, lean-to
Left: cliff 厂, right: summer 夏 (Covered 一 [= in the shade] I myself 自 sit cross-legged 夂, because it is summer.) Directly at the cliff and (nice like) the summer: our mansion. |
额 |
forehead, share, portion, amount
Left: guest 客 (Under the roof 宀 is everybody 各 sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 our guest.), right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The guests get by head (or forehead) each their share. |
倾 |
incline, to collapse, to overturn, to tend
Left: person 亻, right: short while ago, area size qǐng 顷 (sitting person 匕, page, (fore)head 页/頁 (=head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Better left: change 化 If a person 亻turns to a sitting 匕 person, it's in the head, that is inclining. |
颤 |
to tremble, to shiver, to shake, to vibrate
Left: 亶 (cover 亠, rotate 回, sun rise 旦), right: page, (fore)head 页 (= 頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) If under the cover all is rotating at sun rise in your head, you tremble and shiver. |
顽 |
stupid, obstinate, stubborn, mischievous, naughty
Left: Yuan/money 元, right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Who shows his Yuan (open) at the forehead, is stupid. |
颇 |
rather, considerably, inclined, slanting
Left: skin 皮 (hand 又, with a knife 丨 peeling the skin 厂), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The skin at the forehead is rather inclined. |
颈 |
neck, nape, throat
Left: vertical 圣 (A hand 又 is vertically above the ground 土.), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The part with the 'vertical orientation' at the head is: the neck. |
颠 |
apex, top (of the head), to fall forwards, inverted
Left: really, truly 真 (The ten 十 eyes 目 see that the table  is truely real.), right: page, leaf, head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) It is truely the forehead the apex. |
颁 |
promulgate, publish, issue, to confer
Left: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces), right: page, leaf, head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Divide (or let others participate) with the pages when: promulgating. |
颂 |
to praise, ode, bless, eulogy
Left: public 公 (Eight 八 noses 厶 form the public.), right: page, leaf, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Publically his (fore-)head shall be praised. |
颖 |
clever, gifted, new and original, head of grain
Top: a short while ago 顷 (sitting person 匕, head 页/頁), below left: rice plant 禾 It sits on the rice plant the spike (="the grain's head"), which is considered: "clever and gifted". |
濒 |
to be close to, near, to approach
Left: water 氵, right: frequently, often 频 (to go 步, side, head 页/頁 [head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrow 一]) The water goes (up to) your head and is thus (really) close to you. |
顷 |
a little while ago, unit of area equal to 100 亩 or 6.67 hectares
Left: sitting person 匕, right: page,leaf, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The sitting person has in his head the area of 6.7 hectares |
嘎 |
cackling sound, creak, crunch
Left: Mouth 口, right: 戛 (Vari. of: head, shoulder 頁 [= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一], halbard 戈) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when cutting off a head with a halberd is a: cackling. |
癫 |
convulsions, crazy, mentally deranged
Outside: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), inside: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely 真 that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte) The disease, where you "inverte" are the convulsions of a crazy person. |
颅 |
skull
Left: Luxembourg 卢 (forking of the way卜, buttocks 尸), right: page, leaf, forehead 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) If there is only one hair 卜 on the head 尸, this head 頁 is a skull. |
嚣 |
clamor, screaming, noise, rampant
Four mouths 口, a head 页/頁 (with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Mouths screaming on all sides of your head, is a: clamor. |
颓 |
to crumble, to collapse, to decline, decadent, dejected
Left: bald, blunt 秃 (The rice plants 禾 are placed on the table 几 (for peeling / cleaning) until they are bald.), right: page, leaf, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The bald head has crumbled. |
颐 |
cheek, lower cheek, chin, jaw, to nourish
Left: minister, offical 臣 (here: image of left cheek 匚 with mouth ロ), right: page, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The cheek at the head stands for: cheek or to nourish. |
寡 |
few, widowed
From top: roof 宀, head/forehead (for person) 頁, divide 分 (with a sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces) If under the roof there are (further) heads, the part/division for the widow becomes too little. |
颌 |
jaw (= maxilla and mandible)
Left: to fit 合 (The lid  on the pot 口), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) What is fitting at the head is the jaw (with its upper and lower jaw) |
颉 |
fly upward (bird), soar, contest
Left: happy 吉 (simplific. of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The happyiness (above) the heads is: to fly upwards. |
顼 |
anxious, grieved
Left: king 王, right: page, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The king is in his head: anxious. |
巅 |
summit
Top: mountain 山, bottom: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely 真 that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte) The mountain with an apex is: the summit. |
颍 |
river in Anhui, grain husk, tip of sth short and slender
Left: spoon 匕 (or sitting person), water 水, right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
颊 |
cheeks
Left: squeeze in 夹 (A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed.), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) They are squeezing in the head: the cheeks. |
颚 |
jaw, palate
Left: jaw 咢 (two teeth 口, tongue 一, lower jaw 丂), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) The jaw at the head is: the jaw |
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