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new born baby   

Explanation Character for child , but turned upside down: the baby at birth comes first.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
to give birth, to raise, to educate

Top: new born baby (character for child turned upside down: the baby's head comes first), below: body /
The new born baby has a body, that is born and needs to be raised.
JLPT HSK 4
to flow, to drift, to disseminate, to circulate
liú
Left: water , right: ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down: the child comes with head first, with amniotic fluid )
Water as well as a newborn baby's amniotic fluid is flowing.
JLPT HSK 4
to abandon, to relinquish, to discard, to throw away

Top: 'new born baby' (Character for child , but turned upside down: the baby at birth comes first), bottom: grass, plant (here exceptionally not as two hands )
The new born baby in the grasses is abandoned.
JLPT HSK 5
satisfy, fulfill, substitute
chōng
Top: newborn baby (child turned upside down, because at birth with head first), below: legs - Here: see similarity to flow/stream 流
The new born baby flounders with his legs to be 'filled' [= fed] and thus be satisfied.
JLPT HSK 5
context, to gather, to unite, whole
tǒng
Left: thread 纟/, right: satisfy, to fill 充 (The newborn baby [= child upside down, because it comes with the head first] flounders with his legs to be 'filled' [= fed] and thus be satisfied. (cf.流)
Threads are satisfying if they are in a context. (i.e. woven)
JLPT HSK 6
to remove, to take away, to withdraw
chè
From left: hand , give birth, educate (The new born baby [=child upside down, as head first at birth] has a body , that is born and raised), strikes 攵/
The hand raises and educates with strikes and then removes/withdraws.
JLPT no HSK
sulfur (chemistry)
liú
Left: stone , right: (here as a var. of: 'to flow' 流) ( = newborn baby [character for child upside down = coming with head first], [amniotic] fluid )
[melting point 115°C] The stone that can flow is sulphur.

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