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们 |
many, plural marker for persons
Left: person 亻, right: gate 门/門 (A single door is not enough.) For the persons you need a gate, if they are many. |
门 |
gate, door
Image of a gate (simplified from 門) |
间 |
between, among, to separate
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: sun 日 The gate 門 has two wings (with a gap) and the sun shines between. |
问 |
to ask, to inquire after
Outside: gate 门/門, below: mouth 口 The mouth at the gate is asking. |
简 |
simple, uncomplicated, letter (=formerly bamboo strips)
Top: bamboo 竹, below: gap/space 间/間 (The sun 日 shines between the wings of a gate 门/門 through a gap.) If you build using bamboo with gaps (= with spaces in between), you makes it very simple. |
闻 |
to hear, well-known, famous, to smell or sniff
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: ear 耳 You put your ear to the gate to hear and smell. |
闹 |
noisy, cacophonous, to make noise, to fall ill
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: city, market 市 (You will get covers 亠 and cloth 巾 in the city on the market.) Inside the gates of the city: it is noisy. |
阅 |
to inspect/review (troops), to peruse, to read
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: money transfer 兑 (Going out 丷 from my elder brother 兄 money transactions take place.) [brother 兄 = big mouth 口 on legs 儿] At the gate you need to pay and are inspected. OR: At the gate 门 my older brother 兄 has to raise his arms 丷 and is inspected. |
闭 |
to close, stop up, shut, obstruct
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: talent/years of age 才 (If the big man 大 balances on one foot, he is talented, but here: he kicks) [Or: key ノ in a keyhole ナ] The person kicks against the gate, because it is closed. |
润 |
smooth, lubricate, moist
Left: water 氵, right: 闰 (gate 门/門 and king 王) With water the gate of the king became smooth and lubricated. |
闲 |
leisure, free time, unoccupied, not busy
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: tree 木 Through the gate out to the trees, when you are at leisure. |
闯 |
to dash, to rush, charge, to break through
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: horse 马/馬 Through the gate the horses are dashing away. |
闪 |
spark, flickering, flash, lightning, to sprain
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: person 人 When the person (jumped) through the gate, it happened quickly like a flash, and he sprained. |
闷 |
stuffy, depressed, melancholy, bored
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: heart 心 The gate limits the heart: That's stuffy and you get depressed. |
阐 |
to disclose, express, to enlighten, clarify
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: single, merely 单 (It shines 丷 the sun 日 in a group of ten 十 [with nine planets, including Pluto] as the single one.) The reason why he was at the gate as a single, he had to disclose (to the guard). |
搁 |
to place, to put aside, to shelve
Left: hand 扌, right: pavilion 阁 (Behind the gate 门 everybody 各 has his pavilion.) By hand they direct you in the pavilion to: your place. |
阔 |
rich, wide, vast, broad, expansive
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: life, activity 活 (= water 氵on the tongue 舌) When I leave out of the gate, I get activity in a rich vast way. |
阂 |
to obstruct, be blocked
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: (zodiac) pig 亥 If the pigs are within the gate, they form an obstruction. |
阀 |
clique, faction, valve (loanword)
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: to cut down, fell 伐 (A person 亻with a halberd 戈 is cutting down.) It's like a gate with a guarding person (person with a halberd): the valve. |
澜 |
swelling water, overflowing
Left: water 氵, right: railing, balustrade 阑 (At the gate 门/門 is made of wood 木 with handles 日: a railing) The water at the balustrade is: a swelling water. |
阎 |
gate to a lane / community
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: pitfall 臽 (falling person ⺈ over a pit trap 臼, but here: 臼 as a lane with houses on both sides E 彐) Through this gate the person comes to the residential street: The entrance gate. |
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. |
娴 |
to be skilled at, refined, elegant
Left: woman 女, right: leasure, free time 闲 (Through the gate 门/門 out to the trees 木, when you are at leisure) (With experience, the work goes faster) If the woman wants free time, she has to be skilled. |
闸 |
gear, brake, sluice, electric switch
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: armor, shield 甲 (The seedling丨 cracks its shell/husk 田) (It can be open or closed) The gate is like a switchable shielding, switchable just like: the gear of a gearbox. |
闽 |
abbr. for Fujian 福建 province in the Min dynasty
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: insect 虫 An insect at the gate stands for the Fujian-province. |
闺 |
lady's chamber, boudoir, small arched door
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: piled earth 圭 (Together with person 亻/人 this means: 'beautiful' 佳 (The person strutting 行 on the mounded street 街 is beautiful 佳) Behind the gate is for the 'beautiful', the: lady's chamber. |
阙 |
fault, deficiency, mistake
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: disobedient 屰 (A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked has a lack 欠) (The door is stuck) The gate is 'disobedient': It has a fault. |
闵 |
(Family name) Min
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: text/language 文 At the gate a text at family: Min |
阑 |
railing, balustrade, door-screen, exhausted, late
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: card, letter 柬 (tree 木 with central handles 日) At the gate is made of wood with handles: a railing |
阉 |
to castrate, a castrate, neuter
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: suddenly 奄 (i.e. a lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚] (Climbing over) the gate, the big electricity made him: a castrate. |
阁 |
pavilion (usu. two-storied), cabinet (politics), rack, shelf
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody) Behind the gate everybody has a pavilion. |
榈 |
palm tree
Left: tree 木, right: 闾 (gate 门/門 und pitchpipe 吕 here: 2 jujube/dates) The tree at the gate with the 2 jujubes: The palm. |
斓 |
multi-colored, brightly colored, gorgeous
Left: Variation of text/language 文, right: railing, balustrade 阑 (At the gate 门/門 is made of wood 木 with handles 日: a railing) The language at the gate in the east 东/東 is colorful and gorgeous. |
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