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点 |
point, o'clock, drop (of liquid), dot stroke
Top: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told), bottom: fire 灬 If you tell the fortune over a fire, you will get to the point. |
热 |
hot, heat, to warm up, fervent
Top: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌 to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.), bottom: fire 灬 [bead, pill 丸 = A 'nine' 九 needs an additional stroke 丶 to become round like a pill/bead.] If your hand holds a bead over the fire, it gets really hot. |
黑 |
black, dark
At top: variation of village 里, bottom: fire 灬 - Here: consider 里 as cooking pot The bottom of the cooking pot has - by the fire - been stained black. |
然 |
correct, right so, thus, like this, -ly
Top: dog meat 肰 (body 月/肉, dog 犬), below: fire 灬 [犬 = The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶] (Dog meat is often chewy) The meat of a dog must be correctly over the fire: so it will be right and correct, thus ... |
照 |
illuminate, to shine, in accordance with, reflect
Top: bright, manifest 昭 (The sun 日 is calling 召: It is becoming bright and manifest!) - [calling together 召 = with the sword 刀 and the mouth 口], bottom: fire 灬 A bright fire for illumination. |
马 |
horse
simplified from 馬 Image of a running horse ㄅ, with the mane in the wind ⌝, four legs 灬 and the tail フ. |
熊 |
bear, raging flames
Top: talent, ability 能 (nose 厶, body 月 and claws 匕匕 prove talent.), bottom: four legs 灬 The talent on four legs is the bear. |
糕 |
cakes, pastry
Left: rice 米, right: lamb 羔 (sheep 羊 [here: rising heat 丷 in an oven with three levels 王], fire 灬) It's made of rice in a 3-level-oven over the fire: The cake. |
蕉 |
banana
Top: plant 艹, below: burnt 焦 (bird 隹, fire 灬 [here: image of hanging bananas]) The plant only birds can reach with the hanging fruits is: the banana. |
熟 |
ripe (of fruit), mature (of seeds), cooked (of food), skilled
From top: who, what 孰 (enjoy 享 [=the high 高 child 子 enjoys] and bead, round 丸 [丸 = A 'nine' 九 needs an additional stroke 丶 to become round like a pill.]), fire 灬 (Cooking by temperature: like potatoes at the rim of the grill?) The tall 'children' are around the fire for being: riped (matured). |
燃 |
to burn, to ignite, to enlight, to spark off (hopes)
Left: fire 火, right: correct, right, so 然 (The body 月/肉 of the dog 犬 was roasted 灬 over the fire. Is that correct?) A fire that grills the body of a dog is: a real fire. |
瞧 |
to look at, to see (a doctor)
Left: eye 目, right: burnt 焦 (bird 隹 over the fire 灬, but here: 4 legs) The eye sees a bird with four legs. You have to look at it! |
烈 |
burning fiercely, intense, ardent
Top: row 列 (wicked 歹 [bar bone] is exposed with a knife刂 in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: fire 灬 A row of fires burns fiercely. |
煮 |
to cook, to boil
Top: person 者 (old man 耂 on the sun 日), bottom: fire 灬 The person at the fire is cooking. |
熬 |
to slowly boil sth., stew, to simmer, endure (suffering)
Top: to ramble 敖 (The growing plant  would grow in all directions 方 and needs the 攵 [= stick 卜 in a hand 又] against rambling.), bottom: fire 灬 A rambling flame causes slow: boiling. |
墨 |
black ink, China ink, Mexico 墨西哥
Top: black 黒 (The bottom of the cooking pot 里 is stained by fire 灬 black), below: earth 土 Black earth is used: for ink. |
焦 |
scorched, burnt, charred, worried, anxious
Top: bird 隹, below: fire 灬 (Chickens are plucked and then scorched to remove the feathers.) The bird on the fire is scorched. |
遮 |
to conceal, to cover up (a shortcoming), to screen off
Left: movement 辶, right: commonly, ordinary 庶 (A building 广 with various objects 廿 is in fire 灬 which commonly can happen.) (In a magic trick you make inconspicuous movements) With an ordinary movement you can conceal/hide something. |
蒸 |
to steam (cooking), sultry, to evaporate
From top: plant 艹, water 水 between two boundaries 二 (= a steaming pot), fire 灬 For (cooking the) plants is this water between the boundaries, when from below the fire heats: the steam. |
赤 |
red, scarlet, bare, naked
Combination of earth 土 and fire 灬 When earth (clay) is burned, the pottery turns into: red. |
杰 |
heroic, outstanding person, prominent
Top: tree 木, bottom: fire 灬 (here: many roots) A tree with such many roots stands heroically. |
煎 |
to pan fry, to sauté
Top: before 前 (Where from the sheep's 羊 head, meat 月/肉 is cut刂, is the front), bottom: fire 灬 Before (= in the beginning) you need fire for: frying. |
熏 |
to smoke, to fumigate, to perfume
Top: variant of double/heavy 重 (vehicle 車 with double wheels), below: fire 灬 The heavy vehicle is burning: It smokes! |
燕 |
swallow (bird), Yan (state of Zhou)
From top: twenty 廿, north 北 (2 people sit back-to-back because of the north's cold.), mouth 口, fire 灬 In (groups of) twenty they come from the nord, because of the food (= mouth) and the temperature (=fire): the swallows |
礁 |
reef, shoal rock
Left: stone 石, right: scorch, burn, fret 焦 (bird 隹 on fire 灬) The stones appear to be scorched on the reef. |
熙 |
prosperous, splendid
Top: 巸 (minister 臣 [eye wide open], self 己), bottom: fire 灬 The minister himself must light the fire, to make it splendid. |
庶 |
common people (or populace), numerous
From top: building 广, various objects 廿, fire 灬 A building with various objects on the fire, just like ordinary/common people do. |
煞 |
to terminate, cut short, to squeeze, to reduce
Left: mowing grass 刍 (with a handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: to strike 攵/攴 (a hand 又 with a stick 卜), bottom: fire 灬 By mowing or strikes or fire you can make things terminate. |
焘 |
cover over, to envelope
Top: long life 寿 (two skillful hands 手 & 寸 are needed for Sushi 寿司 and you will have a long life.), bottom: fire 灬 (Oxygen reduction by a cover causes a slow burning:) A long life has the fire, if it is covered. |
樵 |
firewood, gather wood
Left: tree 木, right: scorched, burnt 焦 The tree that is scorched is: firewood. |
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 |
羔 |
lamb
Top: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep), bottom: fire 灬 (I love roasted lamb) The 'sheep' on the fire is: a lamb. |
熹 |
dim light, glimmer, warm, bright
Top: to be happy, enjoy 喜 (A scholar 士 with beans 豆 in his mouth 口 is happy.), bottom: fire 灬 You are happy when it becomes warm like a fire: with warm and bright light at dawn. |
羹 |
soup
Top: lamb 羔 (The sheep 羊 on the fire 灬 is: a lamb), bottom: beautiful, USA 美 (sheep 羊, big 大) The lambs of sheep that are big are used in: the soup. |
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