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现 |
present, now, existing, current, appear
Left: king, jade 王, right: to see 见/見 (an eye 目 on legs 儿) (The overview) of the king sees it presently now. |
球 |
ball, sphere, globe
Left: a king 王, right: to seek / request for 求 ([I'm dying of thirst:] Just one 一 drop 丶 of water 水, this is my: request!) The king asks for his ball. |
班 |
squad, team, class, work shift, group
Left and right: king 王, center: knife 刂 If there are the 'knifes' between the kings, it is their squads. |
玩 |
toy, play, sth used for amusement
Left: king 王, right: chin. Yuan, originally 元 (=two 二 legs 儿) The king looks originally for: amusement. |
望 |
to expect, to hope, to visit, to gaze (into the distance)
Top: death 亡 (coffin in cross-section), body 月, bottom: king 王 The dead body of the king goes with our expectations. |
环 |
ring, loop, (chain), bracelet
Left: king 王, right: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!) A king is not limiting himself with only one ring. |
理 |
reason, intrinsic order, logic, science
Left: king 王, right: village 里 (Fields 田 and earth 土 belong to the village.) When the king comes to the village, there must be a reason. |
弄 |
to juggle, play with, lane, alley, to fool with
Top: king 王 (here: four sticks: 三,丨), bottom: two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined.) With four sticks in the hands he is juggling, or playing in the alley. |
程 |
regulation, rule, order, procedure
Left: rice plant 禾, right: to submit, petition 呈 (With your mouth 口 at the king 王 to submit sth.) Rice plants for the mouth of the king: This is the regulation! |
逛 |
to stroll, to roam, to visit
Left: movement 辶, right: mad/wild 狂 (The wild animal 犭of the king 王 is mad.) The movement is mad, when the wild animal with the king is strolling or roaming. |
王 |
king, monarch
The three 三 spheres (heaven, earth and mankind) unite in the person 丨 of the king. |
珍 |
precious thing, treasure
Left: king 王, right: 㐱 (person 人 with skin rash 彡 [like measles 疹], but here: jewels 彡) The king is the person with the jewels and looks precious. |
润 |
smooth, lubricate, moist
Left: water 氵, right: 闰 (gate 门/門 and king 王) With water the gate of the king became smooth and lubricated. |
玉 |
jade
King 王 (three spheres 三 [heaven, earth, mankind], one person 丨), jewel 丶 At the foot of the king are his jade-jewels. |
玻 |
glass
Left: king, jade 王 (jade by itself is also: 玉), right: skin 皮 (hand 又, with a knife 丨 peeling the skin 厂) When jade is (as thin) as a skin, it is glass. |
璃 |
glass, colored glaze
Left: king, jade 王, right: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺, so that it "leaves" us.) [禺 = skorpion 田,禸 with hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶] The king has a pot with scorpions that is made of glass. [Or: The "jade" of the pot with scorpions is: glass.] |
宝 |
a treasure, jewel or gem, precious
Top: roof/house 宀, bottom: jade, jewel 玉 (At the feet of the king 王 is his jade/jewels 丶) Under the roof are jewels: A treasure! |
狂 |
mad, wild, violent
Left: animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: king 王 The dog of the king is mad. |
珠 |
bead, pearl
Left: king, jade 王, right: vermilion/red 朱 (A branch at the young tree 未 has sth. red ノ =apple?) The king has red beads and perls. |
呈 |
to submit, to petition, to show, to offer
Top: mouth 口, bottom: king 王 With your mouth [Or: a document 口] at the king to submit sth. |
旺 |
flourishing, prosperous, roaring (fire)
Left: sun, day 日, right: king 王 During the day, the king looks so flourishing! |
枉 |
twisted, crooked, in the wrong, in vain
Left: tree 木, right: king/jade 王 (jade itself is also: 玉) If the whole tree is fully (hung) of jade, it becomes (due to the weight) twisted and crooked. |
琢 |
to cut (gems)
Left: jade, king 王 (jade itself is: 玉), right: 豖 (pig 豕 with a cut leg) Jade is just as a cut pig's leg, both are: cut and polished. |
玛 |
agate, cornelian
Left: king, jade 王 (Jade itself is: 玉), right: horse 马 (=馬 with mane, four legs 灬 und tail ㄅ) The jewel (=jade) that has similar to a horse different colored stripes is: the agate. |
琳 |
gem, beautiful jade
Left: king, jade 王, right: forest 林 The king has a forest with gems. |
琼 |
jasper, fine jade, exquisite (e.g. wine, food), beautiful
Left: king, jade 王 (jade itself is: 玉), right: capital 京 (image of a stone lantern) The 'jade' for the capital is: the fine jasper. |
瑞 |
propitious, lucky, auspicious
Left: king 王, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而) A king who is focused (to his job) is propitious. |
琐 |
trifling, fragmentary
Left: king 王, right: small 小, money 贝/貝 For a king is small change trifling. |
璇 |
beautiful jade, star
Left: king, jade 王, right: revolve 旋 (The side 方 of the lying person  is okay 正, but he has to be turned [because of bed sores?]) The royal jade is revolved (= round at all sides) as: beautiful jade. |
瑜 |
excellence, luster of gems
Left: king 王, right: to assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead  gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭]) The king is assenting this excellence. |
玲 |
sound of tinkling (ting-a-ling) of gem-pendants
Left: King, jade 王, right: order, command 令 (here: image of a bell - cf. metal bell 铃 - (令 = bell's body  , bell's bolt マ) The jade bell has tinkling sound. |
瑶 |
precious stone, jade, nacre, precious
Left: king, jade 王, right: 䍃 (hand reaching down 爫, can 缶 (lid  and can opener 十 of that can 凵) The 'jade', the hand gets out of the can, is a precious stone. |
琉 |
precious stone
Left: king, jade 王, right: 㐬 ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down  : the child 子 comes with head first, with amniotic fluid 川) If a 'jade' gets a new live, then as: a precious stone. |
珀 |
amber
Left: king 王, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white) The king's "white" is amber. |
瑰 |
extraordinary, (semi-precious stone)
Left: king, jade 王, right: devil 鬼 The jade of the devil is extraordinary. |
汪 |
ooze, expanse of water
Left: water 氵, right: king 王 (here: water surface 一 with earth 土) Water that is (mixed) up to its surface with earth is ooze/mud. |
瑛 |
(crystal), lustrous
Left: king/jade 王, right: brave, England 英 (The plant 艹 in the center 央 is brave.) The jade that is 'brave' is lustrously. |
琪 |
fine jade, angel
Left: king, jade 王, right: his, her, its 其 (image of grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing), here: Playing field, like at chess 棋 The jade on the playing-field is: fine jade. |
瑚 |
coral
Left: king, jade 王, right: beard, non-Han-person 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月 are the beards of the non-Han people.) The 'jade' that is on old 古 bodies 月 (= coral reef), is the coral. (Or: The king in the water-less lake 湖 is the coral.) |
珊 |
coral
Left: king, jade 王, right: book, booklet 册 (here: two boats 舟) For this 'jade' (its extraction) you need boats, the: Coral. |
逞 |
to show off, to flaunt, to boast
Left: movement 辶, right: to submit/petition 呈 (With your mouth 口 at the king 王 to submit sth.) With movements and the mouth (= much talking) at the king to show off. |
玫 |
rose
Left: king 王, right: strike 攵/攴 (hand 又 with a stick 卜, here: sprout ノ) Something royal develops when this sprout 卜 is planted: a rose. |
璋 |
jade plaything, ancient stone ornament
Left: king/jade 王, right: medal 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.) [early 早 = When the sunrise 旦 is at a mark 丶 at the horizon 一, it is early in the morning.] The king gives as a medal a: jade plaything. |
琦 |
gem, precious stone, curio
Left: king, jade 王, right: strange/odd 奇 (There is a big 大 possibility (opportunity) 可, but it looks strange.) [possibility 可 = The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.] This 'jade' gives big possibilities, because it is a gem. |
琛 |
precious stone, gem, treasure
Left: king, jade 王, right: 罙 (var. of hole 穴, tree 木 The 'jade' in the hole at the tree is a precious stone. |
噩 |
unlucky, bad, ill-omened, startling
Four mouths 口 and in the middle: king 王 If four mouths (talk to) the king, he is: unlucky. |
瑙 |
agate
Left: king, jade 王, right: wild river 巛, druse 口 with an agate 㐅 The jade from a wild river in a druse is: the agate. |
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. |
琅 |
tinkling of pendants, jade-like stone
Left: king, jade 王, right: good 良 The jade is good if it is tinkling. |
珂 |
jade-like stone
Left: king, jade 王, right: be possible, can 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible) The 'jade' of the possibilities is the: jade-like. |
琵 |
guitar-like instrument, see 琵琶, lute
Top: Two pegs 王 for tensioning the strings of a string instrument, bottom: to compare 比 (here: 4 strokes for 4 strings) The string instrument with 4 strings is this lute. |
珑 |
exquisite, tinkling of gem-pendants
Left: king 王, right: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a dragon ノ) He is the king of the dragons, because he is exquisite. |
瑾 |
brilliancy (of gems), fine jade, genius
Left: king, jade 王, right: blooming plant 堇 (from top: plant 艹, blossoms 口, growing plant  ) A king like a 'blooming plant' is brilliant. |
璐 |
beautiful jade
Left: king, jade 王, right: road, path 路 (The feet 足 all 各 move on the road.) Jade is the road to beautiful jade. |
琏 |
vessel used to hold grain offerings
Left: king, jade 王, right: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.) To the king we are linked through vessels of offerings. |
瑕 |
blemish, flaw in jade, defect
Left: king, jade 王, right: (free interpretation: mine/pit) 叚 (In a hole 口 with a ladder 'E' you have the tool コ in your hand 又.) The jade stone from the mine was with blemish. |
珥 |
pearl or jade earring
Left: king, jade 王, right: ear 耳 The jade at the ear is the: earring. |
璞 |
unpolished gem
Left: king, jade 王, right: thicket, tedious 菐 (In hollow 业 things the orchid 兰 grows and the person 人 takes it out of the: thicket) If the jade appears like in a 'thicket', it is an: unpolished gemstone. |
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