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生 |
life, to be born, to grow, raw/uncooked
Accent/emphasis ノ (here: a twig) at a growing plant  /丰 [cf. abundant 丰] The twig at the growing plant stands for life. |
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年 |
year
An emphasis ノ at the trunc of a tree | with three 三 branches /丰 and another emphasis ノ. The emphases are fruits.) When the trees have fruits, it again has passed: a year. |
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么 |
"referring to", exclamatory final particle, interrogative
Top: accent for emphasis 丶, bottom: self, personal 厶 (shows a nose)
The emphasis on your own nose is this reference. |
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系 |
connection, link, system, relation
Top: accent ノ for the emphasis, bottom: thread 糸
An emphasized thread for: the connections in a system. |
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少 |
few, little
Top: small 小 (A person 亅 with the arms 八 close to the body is small), bottom: extra stroke ノ
Such a small stroke is too few. |
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考 |
to check, to verify, to test, to examine
At top: old man 耂, below: wound seeweed 丂
From the ground 土 with a stick ノ the seeweed 丂 is checked. |
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刻 |
to carve, quarter (hour), to cut
Left: (zodiac) pig 亥/豚 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶), right: knife刂
(piece-rate work at the slaughterhouse) The pig is cut with a knife (=carved) within a quarter hour. |
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该 |
should, ought to, probably, must be
Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: (zodiac) pig 亥 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶)
Like words towards a pig, that's how it should be. |
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才 |
talent, just now, not until
When the big 大 person balances on one foot, he is talented. |
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必 |
certainly, must, will, necessarily
Heart 心, lance ノ
The heart is pierced by the lance - certainly! |
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失 |
to lose, to miss, to fail
Top left: accent ノ (for emphasis), rest: husband 夫 (The big 大 person with the extra-caring arms 一 is the husband.)
I emphasize: the husband will lose. |
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父 |
father
A hand  with a stick ノ The father has a stick in his hand (for punishing). |
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秘 |
secret, secretary
Left: rice plant 禾, right: certainly 必 (The heart 心 is pierced by a lance ノ - certainly!)
(They are so fructuous) Rice plants certainly have a secret! |
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群 |
flock, group, crowd, herd
Left: monarch, master 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in a hand on a mouth 口), right: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep) If a monarch has sheep, then a flock. |
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核 |
nucleus, nuclear, stone (of a fruit), to examine
Left: tree 木, right: (zodiac) pig 亥/豕 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶)
Trees and pigs also consist of atomic nuclei. |
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升 |
ascend, to raise, metric liter
Two hands 廾 where the left hand is holding a bottle ノ with one liter. [hands 廾 = twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined]
Two hands when ascending. |
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伊 |
he, she, abbr. for Iraq or Iran
Left: person 亻, right: to administer, rule 尹 (.. with a stick ノ in the hand you administer) The person with the stick in his hand point to him/her. |
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