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院 |
courtyard, institution
Left: hill 阝(If this radical is at the left of a character, it means "hill", otherwise: "village"), right: finished/complete: 完 (A roof 宀 needs an origin 元 [= groundwork, seating] to be finished and complete.) [Origin: 元 =two 二 legs 儿] This hill is completely (suitable) for an institute. |
阴 |
Moon, cloudy, shady, rearside, Yin of (Yin:阴/Yang:阳)
Left: hill 阝, right: moon 月 The hill is on its "moon-side" shady, thus the: Yin. |
阳 |
Sun, positive, sun, male principle, Yang of (Yin:阴/Yang:阳)
Left: hill 阝, right: sun 日 The hill is on its sunny side positiv, thus the: Yang (male) |
啊 |
interjection of surprise: Ah!, Oh!
Left: mouth 口, right: (exclamation of approval) 阿 ("A hill 阝 of possibilities 可" - This was the exclamation.) The mouth shouts in surprise, what a hill can do! |
附 |
to attach, to add, to be close to
Left: hill 阝, right: hand over, deliver 付 (A person 亻with a skillful hand 寸 handing over sth.) (At a real estate deal) A hill is handed over and (the certificate) is attached. |
除 |
to get rid of, to remove, to exclude
Left: hill 阝, right: excess/rest 余 (A heap  on the altar 示 [= to show], that sth. is in excess.) (The mole control was almost successful:) A hill is in excess: let's get rid of it. |
阿 |
exclamation of approval or doubt
Left: hill 阝, right: possibility 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.) "A hill of possibilities!" This was the exclamation. |
队 |
troops, team, squadron, group
Left: hill 阝 (If this radical: 阝is at the left of a character it means 'hill', otherwise it means 'village'), right: person 人 On the hill the persons are posted as troops. |
随 |
to follow, to comply with, to allow
Left: hill 阝, right: 迶 (movement 辶, have/exist 有 [I have hand  and body 月]) (For hunters: Animals prefer to live in the valleys) Between the hills are existing movements: Follow them! |
际 |
border, edge, boundary
Left: hill 阝(also mountain ridge), right: to show 示 (image of an altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and drippling blood 八) The hill shows (= in the sense of: 'there is') the border. |
险 |
danger, risk, rugged, narrow pass
Left: hill 阝, right: together 佥 (A person 人 as one 一 is with three ツ together.) The hills all together are rugged and form a danger. |
陪 |
to accompany, to keep sb company
Left: hill 阝, right: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit) From a hill he spits on his accompany. |
降 |
to fall (rain), to drop, to descend, to surrender
Left: hill 阝, right from top: upturned foot 夂 (also understood as sitting cross-legged), var. of stop 止 At the hill we distorted our feet and stopped: Because it rained we descended. |
阻 |
to obstruct, to hinder, to block, prevent
Left: hill 阝, right: further/moreover 且 ("stone cairn" = A pile of stones where stones are moreover added.) Hills, piled like stone piles are an obstruction. |
隔 |
to separate, to partition, in distance, delayed
Left: hill 阝(here: a wall), right: 鬲 pictograph of a cooking pot on a frame with support The 'hill' (= a wall is meant) and the pot should be separated by a distance. |
限 |
limit, bound
Left: hill 阝, right: 'not good' 艮 ('good' would be 良, but the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good') A hill is not good, because it is a limit. |
阶 |
stairs, rank, step, hierarchy
Left: hill 阝, right: in-between 介 (The person 人 in this armor 丌 is in-between.) For a hill, 'in-between'-lying sections are the steps of a stairs. |
防 |
to protect, to defend, guard, dam, dike
Left: hill 阝, right: direction/square 方 The hill that is in one direction: The dam (dike), that protects you. |
阵 |
disposition of troops, front, classifier for short durations
Left: hill 阝, right: vehicle 车 (=車 cart with axle丨, load-area 日 and two wheels 二) On the hill the vehicles show the troop's disposition and their roll-down is a short period of time. |
陌 |
raised path, street
Left: hill 阝, right: hundred 百 (tilt your head to the right and read '100') (A street is actually just piled earth cf.街) Hills in hundreds form a street. |
陆 |
mainland, continent, shore, land
Left: hill 阝, right: hit, strike 击 (here: roads 二 and mountain 山) There are hills, roads and mountains: It is the mainland. |
陷 |
to trap, to capture (in battle), defect, submerge
Left: hill 阝, right: pitfall 臽 (falling person ⺈ over a pitfall 臼) As if from a hill a person falls into a pitfall and is trapped and captured. |
陵 |
mound, tomb, hill, mountain
Left: hill 阝, right: dawdle 夌 (Who walks over the earth 土 with legs 儿 that are crossed 夂, is dawdling) The hill where the earth comprises two legs 儿 that are crossed: is an imperial tomb. |
陶 |
pottery, pleased
Left: hill 阝, right: package 匋 (wrap 勹, can 缶 [lid  and can opener 十 of that can 凵]) With material from a hill (clay), you can make this package: pottery. |
隐 |
concealed, secret, hidden, crypto-...
Left: hill 阝, right: urgent/hurry 急 (The bent person ⺈ holds hand  /彐 to heart 心, because he was in hurry (and now is exhausted) He used the hill, for urgently hiding and concealing it. |
坠 |
to fall, to drop, to weigh down
Top: troops 队 (On the hill 阝the persons 人 are posted as troops), bottom: earth 土 From the hill the person comes (down) to the earth, because he has fallen down. |
陡 |
steep, precipitous, abruptly, unexpected
Left: hill 阝, right: go/walk 走 (On earth 土 feet 足 have to walk.) The hill can be, in respect to walking, be steep. |
隙 |
crack, crevice, gap or interval, discord, rift
Left: hill 阝, right: sun 日 with rays to all directions: 小 小 (It causes a shadow:) The hill causes, when the sun is shining to all directions: a crack or gap. |
陈 |
to exhibit, to display, old, stale
Left: hill 阝, right: east 东 (=東 The sun 日 rises behind a tree 木 in the east.) If a hill is exhibited in the east, it will be an old-stale exhibit. |
障 |
to hinder, block, obstruct
Left: hill 阝, right: medal 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.) (As a protection against floodwaters) The hill gets a medal, because it is a hindrance. [against the water] |
陋 |
vulgar, low, plain, ugly, mean, ignorant
Left: hill 阝, right: corner  and Third 丙 (one 一 outside, two λ strokes inside 内 makes 3) At the hill is a corner with three (persons) who are vulgar and mean. |
隆 |
intense, prosperous, to swell, to bulge
Left: hill 阝, right: upturned-foot, crossed-legs 夂, one 一, life 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant  stands for life.) Sitting on a hill with crossed legs and my one life looks: intense & prosperous. |
堕 |
to degenerate, destroy, to fall, overthrow
Left: hill 阝, right: be, have, exist 有 (I have hand  and body 月, thus I am existing.), below: earth 土 One hill exists on earth but it is degenerating. |
隘 |
narrow, defile, pass, confined, in distress
Left: hill 阝, right: benefit 益 (Laid 丷 tables  with plates 皿 are for him [the restaurant owner] a benefit.) At a hill it is beneficial, if there is a narrow pass. |
阱 |
hole, pitfall
Left: hill 阝, right: a well 井 At the hill is a 'well', that actually is a pitfall. |
椭 |
ellipse, oval, elliptic
From left: tree 木, hill 阝, exist, have 有 (I have hand  and body 月, thus I am existing.) (not a round cross-section) Trees that have sth. "hill-like" in their existence are: oval. |
隧 |
tunnel, underground passage
Left: hill 阝, right: satisfy 遂 (out of 丷, pig 豕/豚, movement 辶) By the hill (= the excavation 丷 next to it) you see where the pig's movements made: a tunnel. |
陛 |
the steps to the throne
Left: hill 阝, right: 坒 (compare 比 [= compare the two sitting persons 匕], earth 土) Like a hill in proportion to the earth is his majesty on the throne. |
荫 |
shade
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. |
萨 |
Bodhisattva, enlightenment, Buddhist god
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. |
隋 |
the Sui dynasty (581-617 AD)
Left: hill 阝, right: part of lazy 惰 (I feel 忄, that the left 左 [half] of my body 月 is lazy) At the hills they were lazy during Sui dynasty. |
阮 |
(family name Ruǎn)
Left: hill 阝, right: Yuan 元 At the hill with money (Yuan): family Ruan. |
陨 |
to fall, to perish, meteor
Left: hill 阝, right: member 员/員 (Who has a mouth 口 and money 贝 can become a member) Here: 贝 as a simplification of head/shoulder 頁 This hill or stone 口/石 that can fall on the head is a meteorite. |
陇 |
abbr. for Gansu province 甘肃省
Left: hill 阝, right: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a dragon ノ) The hill with a dragon, in the: Ganzu Province |
隅 |
corner
Left: hill 阝, right: scorpion 禺 (pictograph of a scorpion: combination of 田 for carapace, insect 虫, long legs 冂) On the hill, there are scorpions in every corner. |
陀 |
(phonetic) declivity, steep bank
Left: hill 阝, right: it (lifeless) 它 The hill is lifeless (without turf) on the declivity. |
阜 |
mound, abundant
Top: pair of buttocks  , bottom: ten 十 Of such buttocks you need ten to pile up a mound. |
阪 |
a slope, hillside
Left: hill 阝, right: opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing) The hill is opposing against being: a slope. |
窿 |
cavity, hole
Top: hole, cavity 穴, below: intense, prosperous 隆 (Sitting on a hill 阝 with upturned 夂 feet, the one 一 life 生 looks intense & prosperous) A hole, that is intense, is a: cavity. |
陕 |
abbr. for Shaanxi 陕西 province
Left: hill 阝, right: squeeze in 夹 (A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed) Between hills is is squeezed: Shaanxi (mausoleum with soldier figures of Qin Shi Huang) |
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