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快 |
rapid, quick, speed
Left: feelings 忄, right: 夬 (unfinished center 央 [= The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered]) The feelings about the unfinished center change rapidly. |
情 |
passion, emotion, feeling, situation
Left: feeling 忄, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants  /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.) The feeling of the youth is passion. |
慢 |
slow
Left: feeling 忄, right: handsome 曼 (Sun 日 shines on eye 罒 with long eyelashes 又, but here: 又 as a hand) The feeling with the sun shining into the eyes makes your hands 又: slow. |
忙 |
busy, hurriedly
Left: feeling 忄 (var. of heart 心), right: dead 亡 (a coffin seen from the end) Feelings died (Cardiac death?) caused by being too busy. |
懂 |
to understand, to know
Left: feelings 忄, right: supervise, director 董 (To make plants 艹 heavy 重, they must be supervised/monitored.) Only if you can supervise (control) your feelings, you will understand. |
怕 |
to fear, to be afraid, to dread
Left: feelings 忄, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.) (If everything is white, you can't see anything.) The feelings in the white can be fear. |
怪 |
weird, bewildering, monster
Left: feeling 忄, right: upright/vertical 圣 (A hand 又 is vertically above the ground 土) Feelings so upright are weird. |
惯 |
accustomed to, used to, indulge, to spoil (a child)
Left: feeling 忄, right: pierce 贯 (Mother's 母 money 贝 is pierced.) My feelings are pierced, but I get accustomed to it. |
筷 |
chopstick
Top: bamboo 竹, below: rapid, quick 快 (The feeling 忄about an unfinished 夬 center 央 changes rapidly.) From bamboo you can rapidly make chopsticks. |
怀 |
bosom, breast, to think of, to conceive (a child)
Left: feeling 忄, right: negation 不 (Four strokes are not enough!) Feelings are not only in the bosom. |
性 |
personality, nature, character, sexuality, gender
Left: feeling 忄, right: life/birth 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant  stands for life.) Feelings you have at your birth determine your personality. |
忆 |
memory, to recollect, to remember
Left: feelings 忄, right: at second position 乙 (The number 'two' 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) The feeling that comes after, in second place, is the memory. |
惜 |
regret, pity, to rue, to begrudge
Left: feeling 忄, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old days) (Times are getting harder:) Feelings we had in the old days, were the regrets. |
惊 |
to be frightened, to be scared, alarm
Left: feeling 忄, right: capital 京 (image of a stone lantern) The feelings in the capital can be frightening. |
怜 |
to pity, to sympathize
Left: feelings 忄, right: command/order 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩, was ordered) Some feelings come automatically, as if on command: The pity. |
恼 |
to get angry, hate, enraged
Left: feelings 忄, right: trash can 㐫 (cover 亠 and grim 凶 [container 凵 with dreadful 㐅 content]) Feelings for the trash can are: anger and hate. |
悔 |
regret, remorse, repentance
Left: feeling 忄, right: each/every 每 (every person 人 =  has a mother 母) [母 = woman 女 with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breastfeeding] A feeling that everyone has (at times) is regret. |
愉 |
happiness, cheerful, joyful, pleased
Left: feeling 忄, right: assent 俞 (When the arrowhead  gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭]) Feelings of assent are: happiness and cheerfulness. |
懒 |
lazy, idle, inactive
Left: feeling 忄, right: depending on 赖 (bundle 束, to bear 负 [With the load ⺈ at the backpack 冂 the person 人 bears a load]) The feeling when you give your bundle to the bent ⺈ for money 贝/貝 is: to be lazy. |
恨 |
to hate, bitterness, to regret
Left: feeling 忄, right: not good 艮 ('good' would be 良, but the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good') Feelings are not good when they are hatred. |
恢 |
to restore, to recover, great
Left: feelings 忄, right: ashes 灰 (If sth. covers "cliff-厂-like" the fire 火, it is the ashes.) The feelings out of the ashes shall be restored. |
悄 |
quiet, sad
Left: feelings 忄, right: alike/resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.) Feelings, that are alike are quietness and sadness. |
慌 |
to get panicky, confused, to lose one's head
Left: feeling 忄, right: uncultivated, rough 荒 (The plants 艹 died 亡 [coffin seen from the end] due to river 川 and it became uncultivated.) The feelings were so uncultivated/rough that I got panicky. |
慎 |
careful, cautious, prudent
Left: feeling 忄, right: really, truly 真 (The ten 十 eyes 目 see that the table  is truely real.) As for your feeling for the truth, you should be: careful. |
憾 |
regret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)
Left: feeling 忄, right: feeling 感 (= a salty 咸 heart 心 - Who (is targeting) with the halberd 戈 to the one 一 mouth 口 should, in his heart 心, have feelings.) Feelings and more feelings of regret. |
愧 |
ashamed, remorse
Left: feeling 忄, right: devil 鬼 The feeling in face of the devil is ashamed and remorseful. |
惭 |
ashamed, disgrace
Left: feelings 忄, right: to chop, cut 斩 (vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe 斤) The feeling as if being chopped, that is the: shame. |
恒 |
constant, permanent, fixed, usual, ordinary
Left: feeling 忄, right: to extend wholly 亘 (from sunrise to sunset 亘 (the sun 日 above 旦 and below the horizon 一) My feelings from sunrise to sunset are usually constant. |
怖 |
terror, terrified, afraid, frightened
Left: feeling 忄, right: cloth 布 (A hand  holds a cloth 巾.) My feeling with this cloth is terror. |
忧 |
to worry, anxiety, sorrow
Left: feelings 忄, right: outstanding 尤 (Despite the broken leg 尢 [= 乚] the emphasis 丶 makes the big 大 person: outstanding.) A feeling that is outstanding are the worries. |
恰 |
appropriate, just, exactly, precisely, suitable
Left: feelings 忄, right: to fit 合 (The lid  on the pot 口) The feeling that it fits is just appropriate. |
悦 |
joy, pleased
Left: feeling 忄, right: money transfer 兑 (Going out 丷 from my elder brother 兄 money transactions take place) The feelings about the money transfer (coming from my elder brother) are: joy. |
惨 |
miserable, wretched, cruel, inhuman, tragic
Left: feeling 忄, right: to participate 参 (a nose 厶 that big 大 and hairy 彡, there I participate.) The feeling that my nose is big and hairy makes me miserable. |
慨 |
generous, sad
Left: feeling 忄, right: already, since 既 (It is 'not good' 艮 with a 'false tusk' 牙, that's already since, ..) With feelings she is already rather generous. |
愣 |
unexpectedly, to stare blankly, distracted, rashly
Left: feelings 忄, right: net 罒, direction 方 The feeling, that the net works in one direction, was unexpected. |
惧 |
to fear, dread, be afraid of
Left: feelings 忄, right: tool 具 (The eye 目 sees on the table  a tool) The feeling when an eye is lying on the table is fear and dread. |
怯 |
cowardly, timid, rustic
Left: feelings 忄, right: to leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.) If your feelings left from you, you become cowardly. |
悟 |
enlightment, consciousness, awareness, to comprehend
Left: feeling 忄, right: I, me 吾 (Here: Five 五 mouths 口 are standing for the five paths of buddhistic enlightment.) The (right) feeling and five mouths/paths mean enlightment. |
愤 |
anger, furious, resentment, indignant
Left: feeling 忄, right: 贲 (grasses or thirty 卉 and money 贝) The feeling of paying thirty-fold money for these grasses is anger and indignation. |
恍 |
indistinct, distracted, flurried, disappointed
Left: feelings 忄, right: light, ray 光 (fire 火 on legs 儿 serves as light.) Some feelings are at light: indistinct and distracted. |
惕 |
fearful, alert, on guard, respectful
Left: feeling 忄, right: easy 易 (warming sunshine) The feeling when everything appears too easy, should be a fearful alert. |
慷 |
vehement, fervent, generous, giving, magnanimous
(Left: feelings 忄, right: health 康 (In a building 广 a hand  and a spoon 丨 stirs a soup 水 that is healthy.) Feelings are healthy, if they are vehement and giving. |
悼 |
mourn, lament
Left: feeling 忄, right: excellent 卓 ([Before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜/占 early at the morning 早 is excellent) Can feelings be excellent, when you are mourning? |
惰 |
laziness, lazy
Left: feeling 忄, right: left 左, body 月/肉 (being right-handed:) I feel that my left body (= left body's half) is lazy. |
惋 |
compassion, to regret, to sigh in regret or pity
Left: feelings 忄, right: "as if",similar 宛 (When I at home 宀 in the evening 夕 slump 㔾 (e.g. on the TV-coach) it's always just similar.) The feelings are (always) similar, when I show compassion. |
惮 |
fear, dread, dislike
Left: Gefühl 忄, right: single, individual 单 (It shines 丷 the sun 日 in a group of ten 十 [with nine planets] as the single one) The feeling when you are single, is: fear. |
惦 |
to think of, to remember, to miss
Left: feeling 忄, right: shop, store 店 The feelings are the (real) "business", when thinking of sth/sb. |
懈 |
lax, relaxed, negligent
Left: feelings 忄, right: solution 解 (A horn 角 was cut by a sword 刀 from that cow 牛: It that a solution?) Feelings can be a solution, if you take it lax/relaxed. |
怔 |
terrified, to stare blankly, startled
Left: feeling 忄, right: correct 正 (To stop 止 at the line 一 is correct.) The feeling that I have to make it (always absolutely) correct, is being: terrified. |
愕 |
startled, astonished
Left: feelings 忄, right: jaw 咢 (two teeth 口, tongue 一, lower jaw 丂) The feeling of a jaw wide open is: being startled. |
惟 |
-ism, only
Left: feelings 忄, right: bird 隹 The feelings (with the freedom) of a bird create ideologies such as "-isms". |
悯 |
to sympathize, to pity, to feel compassion for
Left: feeling 忄, right: 闵 (gate 门/門, text/language 文) (He is in the pillory) The feeling when his name is on the gate is to: sympathize. |
慑 |
be feared, afraid, to frighten, to intimidate
Left: feelings 忄, right: whisper 聂 (To the ear 耳 with both hands 双 and we whisper.) The feeling when whispering is fear. |
忖 |
to ponder, to speculate, to consider, to guess
Left: feelings 忄, right: skillful hand 寸 The feeling in a skillful hand is a: pondering. |
怡 |
harmony, pleased
Left: feelings 忄, right: platform, rack 台 (The nose 厶 over the mouth 口 is like a platform) The feeling that there is (for everything) a frame is: Harmony. |
悍 |
fierce, violent, heroic, courageous, intrepid, dauntless
Left: feelings 忄, right: drought 旱 (the sun 日 has dried 干) (The plants are withered) The feelings at this drought are fierce. |
悖 |
to go against, to be contrary to, perverse, rebellious
Left: feelings 忄, right: comet 孛 (It crosses 十 the orbits of the planets in the firmament 冖 and is (big as a) child 子) (It does not follow a planetary orbit:) The feeling with a comet that it: goes against. |
懦 |
cowardly, weak, timid, imbecile
Left: feelings 忄, right: require, need 需 (Rain[water] 雨 on the beard 而 is needed [for care]) The feeling that he needs sb. has the: coward. |
忏 |
feel remorse, regret, repent
Left: feelings 忄, right: thousand 千 This feeling is thousand-fold: the remorse! |
懊 |
to regret
Left: feelings 忄, right: obscure 奥 (Below the roof 宀 is rice 米 in big 大 quantities, which is obscure) (He was greedy:) The feeling when he hoarded under his roof a lot of rice was: regret. |
恤 |
anxiety, sympathy, to give relief, to compensate
Left: feelings 忄, right: blood 血 (A drop 丶 of blood falls in a bowl 皿) The feeling of blood is: anxiety and sympathy. |
恃 |
to rely on, mother (formal)
Left: feelings 忄, right: temple 寺 (= Made of earth 土 and built with skillful hands 寸) I have the feeling, that a temple can be relied on. |
惚 |
absent-minded, confused, indistinct
Left: feelings 忄, right: to neglect, overlook 忽 (If it's only related to sun shine 勿, often the heart 心 is neglected.) The feeling if you are neglected is: absent-minded. |
忡 |
grieved, distressed, sad, uneasy
Left: feelings 忄, right: center 中 The feeling out of your center is: grieve. |
忱 |
honesty, sincerity
Left: feelings 忄, right: 冘 (big 大 person with broken arms and leg) The feeling with the injuries [arms and leg] is: honesty. |
惺 |
tranquil, understand
Left: feelings 忄, right: star 星 (Suns 日 with life 生 are the stars) The feeling when (watching) the stars is: being tranquil. |
惶 |
frightened, afraid, nervous
Left: feelings 忄, right: emperor 皇 (= the sun-日-rayノ-king 王) The feeling in front of the emperor is being: frightened. |
怅 |
depressed, regretful, upset, despair
Left: feelings 忄, right: long 长 (長= Long mane in the wind of a galloping horse) The feeling that (everything) extends long (time) is to be: depressed. |
惘 |
disconcerted, discouraged, dejected, disappointed
Left: feelings 忄, right: 罔 (net 网/drag net 罒+冂, inside: to die 亡 [= coffin in cross-section]) When my feelings are caught in a net until they die, I am disconcerted. |
恺 |
joyful, kind, be contented
Left: feelings 忄, right: How? 岂 (Up to the mountain 山? Myself 己? How??) The feeling after the mountain was climbed by myself was: joy! |
悴 |
downcast, haggard, sad, distressed
Left: feeling 忄, right: soldier, suddenly 卒 (between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly.) The feeling that suddenly soldiers (came) made him downcast. |
恪 |
respectful, scrupulous
Left: feelings 忄, right: every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody) Feelings everybody should have is to be respectful. |
憔 |
haggard, pallid and thin
Left: feelings 忄, right: scorch, burn 焦 (bird 隹, fire 灬 Hier: vier Beine) Feelings like a bird on fire: haggard |
憎 |
hatred, to detest
Left: feeling 忄, right: formerly 曾 (=曽- At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly) Feelings as formerly is the hatred. |
悚 |
frightened
Left: feelings 忄, right: bundle 束(Plants 木 like sheafs of rice (cf.兼), which are bound with a ribbon 口 as a bundle.) The feeling like being bound as a bundle, when being: frightened. |
悸 |
to palpitate, fearful, afraid, perturbed
Left: feelings 忄, right: season, period 季 (Rice plants 禾 and children 子 develop with the seasons.) The feeling with periods is: the palpitating heart with fear. |
愫 |
sincere, honest, guileless
Left: feelings 忄, right: element, essence 素 (Growing plants 丰 consist of fibers 糸 which are their elements.) The feeling, that is essential is to be: sincere. |
憧 |
irresolute, unsettled
Left: feelings 忄, right: child 童 (Standing 立 in the village 里: a child.) The feelings of a child are irresolute and unsettled. |
怦 |
impulsive
Left: feelings 忄, right: flat, equal 平 (image of a scales) The feeling that brings you out of the well-balanced: being impulsive. |
悻 |
angry, vexation, indignant
Left: feelings 忄, right: happiness, fortunate 幸 (Between two 丶丶 earths 土 [the lower mirrored 干] is the happiness.) (The sheep 羊 is missing a stroke 一) The feeling that on earth 土 is an incomplete sheep is: anger. |
憬 |
to long for, yearn for, awaken
Left: feelings 忄, right: scenery, view 景 (... with the sun 日 over the capital 京) Feelings at this view: yearning and longing. |
恬 |
quiet, calm, tranquil, peaceful
Left: feelings 忄, right: tongue 舌 Who has feelings in the tongue is quiet and calm. |
惴 |
anxious, worried
Left: feeling 忄, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而) The feeling, that is concentrated is to be anxious. |
懵 |
stupid
Left: feelings 忄, right: 瞢 (艹 罒/网,冖, 目) My feeling when I see him, with his wide eyebrows 艹, eyes 罒 and a mustache 冖 over the open mouth 目, is that he is: stupid. |
恻 |
sorrowful
Left: feelings 忄, right: standard/rule 则 (money 贝 is cut/split 刂 by rules) The feeling if my money is cut/divided is: sorrow. |
惬 |
cheerful, satisfied
Left: feeling 忄, right: embracement 匚 and squeeze in 夹 [A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed)] here: be included The feelings of being included in an embracement are: cheerful. |
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