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围 |
to encircle, to surround, enwrapped
Left: enclosure 囗, right: soft leather 韦/韋 (Two layers 二 are separated with a special sword 刀 to make leather.) (Think of a shoe 鞋) It makes it enclosed by leather, to be well encircled. |
违 |
to disobey, to violate, to separate, to go against
Left: movement 辶, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather.) Cutting the two layers with the movement of the knife is disobedient. |
伟 |
imposing, great, mighty, magnificent
Left: person 亻, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather) A person in leather appears imposing. |
纬 |
latitude, woof (horizontal thread in weaving), weft
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather - here: three horizontal 三 weft and a warp 丨 at the loom) The thread as a weft is horizontal like the latitude. (longitude = 经) |
讳 |
taboo word, to avoid mentioning, concealing
Left: word 讠/言, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather) If a word is analysed up like leather, then it becomes: a taboo. |
韧 |
resilient, tenacious, tough
Left: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather.), right: blade of a sword 刃 Leather and blades should be resilient. |
韦 |
soft leather
Top: two layers 二, below: sword 刀, with it's blade 丨 drawn upwards between the layers Two layers are separated with the sword's blade to produce leather. |
苇 |
reed, rush, Phragmites communis
Top: plant 艹, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather) The plant that is cut in a bundle (a pair of two 二) is the: reed. |
韬 |
bow case or scabbard, to hide, military strategy
Left: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather), right: 舀 (hand reaching down 爫, mortar 臼) Made of leather and something 爫 peeks out from the mortar-like: Bow case. |
韩 |
Korea, esp. South Korea 大韩民国
Left: sunrise (sun 日 rises between plants 艹, here: east of the center [=China], because sun rises eastern), right: leather 韦(Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather) Eastern (of the center) where they make leather, is Korea. |
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