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育 |
to give birth, to raise, to educate
Top: new born baby  (character for child 子 turned upside down: the baby's head comes first), below: body 月/肉 The new born baby has a body, that is born and needs to be raised. |
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流 |
to flow, to drift, to disseminate, to circulate
Left: water 氵, right: 㐬 ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down: the child 子 comes with head first, with amniotic fluid 川) Water as well as a newborn baby's amniotic fluid is flowing. |
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弃 |
to abandon, to relinquish, to discard, to throw away
Top: 'new born baby' (Character for child 子, but turned upside down: the baby at birth comes first), bottom: grass, plant 艹 (here exceptionally not as two hands 廾) The new born baby in the grasses is abandoned. |
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充 |
satisfy, fulfill, substitute, substitute
Top: newborn baby (child 子 turned upside down, because at birth with head first), below: legs 儿 - Here: see similarity to flow/stream 流 The new born baby flounders with his legs to be 'filled' [= fed] and thus be satisfied. |
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统 |
context, to gather, to unite, whole
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: satisfy, to fill 充 (The newborn baby [= child 子 upside down, because it comes with the head first] flounders with his legs 儿 to be 'filled' [= fed] and thus be satisfied. (cf.流) Threads are satisfying if they are in a context. (i.e. woven) |
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撤 |
to remove, to take away, to withdraw
From left: hand 扌, give birth, educate 育 (The new born baby [=child 子 upside down, as head first at birth] has a body 月, that is born and raised), strikes 攵/攴 The hand raises and educates with strikes and then removes/withdraws. |
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硫 |
sulfur (chemistry)
Left: stone 石, right: 㐬 (here as a var. of: 'to flow' 流) (㐬 = newborn baby [character for child 子 upside down = coming with head first], [amniotic] fluid 川) [melting point 115°C] The stone that can flow is sulphur. |
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