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东 |
east
Simplified from 東, which shows a sun 日 that rises behind a tree 木 in the east. |
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练 |
to train, practice, drill, to perfect (one's skill)
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: east 东/東 (Behind a tree 木 the sun 日 rises in the east)
With endurance (= as long as a thread) and from the early moring (sun is still behind the trees) we already shall do our training. |
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炼 |
to smelt, to refine, to distill
Left: fire 火, right: east 东 (=東 The sun 日 rises behind a tree 木 in the east.)
With fire and early in the morning [The sun is still behind the tree] we start smelting (the steel). |
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冻 |
to freeze, to feel very cold, aspic or jelly
Left: ice 冫, right: east 东 (=東 Where the sun 日 rises behind a tree 木)
(Think here to icicles at a tree, in contrast to frost 霜) It is ice, hangs at the tree the whole day long: It is frozen. |
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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. |
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栋 |
ridgepole of building, classifier for buildings
Left: tree 木, right: east 东/東 (here: 木 as ridge beam, located horizontal at the roof's top, which supports at both sides boards 日 to form the roof)
The tree located at the top, which supports the roof's boards 日 is the ridgepole. |
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拣 |
to choose, to pick up, to sort out
Left: hand 扌, right: variant from the east 东/東 (The sun 日 rises behind a tree 木 in the east.)
(First come = free choice) The hand that comes first in the morning (=the sun still behind the trees) can choose. |
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