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员 |
member, person, employee
Top: mouth 口, bottom: shell/money 贝/貝 (貝 = cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell-money) If you have a mouth and money, you can become a member. |
贵 |
precious, expensive, noble, your (name)
Top: simplification of blooming flower 堇 with two blossoms ロ at a stem丨 growing from the ground 一, bottom: currency/shell 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell money) Blooming flowers and money are precious. |
赛 |
competition, match, to surpass, to excel sb.
From top: roof 宀, a well 井 and table  (or variant of together: 共), Money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八= shell-money) Under the roof we (fight) 'doubly' together 共 for money: in a competition. |
惯 |
accustomed to, used to, indulge, to spoil (a child)
Left: feeling 忄, right: pierce 贯 (Mother's 母 money 贝 is pierced.) My feelings are pierced, but I get accustomed to it. |
费 |
expenses, costs, spendings, fee
Top: not, negation 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.), below: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money) The negation (= the opposite) of my money are my: expenses. |
货 |
goods, commodity, products
Top: change 化 (From a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person is a change.), bottom: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell-money) Change money versus goods and commodities. |
败 |
be defeated, to defeat, loss
Left: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money), right: strike 攵/攴 Hand mit Stock When the money/capital hits, we are defeated. |
责 |
responsibility, duty, to reproach, to blame
Top: growing plant  /丰, below: shell/money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money) Growing plants and money mean responsibility. |
则 |
rule, standard, norm, principle
Left: money 贝/貝 (cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money), right: knife, to cut 刂 (here: to divide) Money [= the capital] and knives [= violence] determine the rules and standards. Or: The money 贝 is divided 刂 according to rules. |
购 |
to purchase, to buy
Left: money 贝/貝 (here: credit card 人 and card reader 冂), right: to hook in 勾 (two hooks 勹, 厶 for the engagement with the card reader) The credit card is hooked into the reader when purchasing. |
质 |
character, nature, pawn, pledge
Outside: cliff 厂, inside: ten 十, shell, money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell-money) At the cliff the ten shells have the (same) character and serve as a pawn. |
贺 |
to congratulate
Top: add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat]), bottom: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money) You should add money to the congratulations. |
负 |
to bear, load, to carry (on one's back), negative (math. etc)
A person bending ⺈ down, below: money 贝/貝 (here: a load ⺈, backpack or joke 冂, person 人, cf. center 央) The bent person with a backpack 冂 bears a load. |
赢 |
to win, gain, to beat, to profit
From top: 亡 (coffin in cross-section), mouth: 口, body 月, money 贝, usually 凡 [= table 几 with scratches 丶] If your coffin is as small as a mouth and your body pays money for it, then (the seller) usually makes: a profit. |
赚 |
to make a profit, to earn
Left: money 贝/貝, right: double, combined 兼 (a hand  holding two rice plants 禾) "Compound interest effect": Money makes combined more profit. |
资 |
capital, resources, to provide, money
Top: next 次 (ice 冫lacks 欠, what comes next? [欠 = A yawning  person 人 is lacking sth.]), bottom: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money) The next money will be added to the capital. |
赞 |
to praise, endorse, support, patronize
Top: 兟=2x in advance, first 先 (A cow 牛 with only two legs 儿 walks preceding.), bottom: money 贝/貝 Foremost with money payments, one can praise and endorse. |
赏 |
to bestow (a reward), to give (to an inferior), to hand down
Top: esteem, to value 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.), below: money 贝/貝, better: crown  and member 员/員 The crown is given to the member 员 as a reward. Or: 尚 as the hand's palm with three fingers: Into the hand he got the money as reward. |
贴 |
to stick, to paste, sticker
Left: shell/money 贝/貝, right: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.) Money from fortune telling has sth. sticky. |
贡 |
to offer tribute, contribute, gifts
Top: work 工, bottom: money 贝/貝 Either with work or money you have to pay your tribute. |
锁 |
to lock up, to lock
Left: metal 钅/金, right: small 小, money 贝 It's made of metal and you can lock-in your small change with it: The lock. |
贷 |
to borrow, loan, credit, to make excuses
Top: generation 代 (The person 亻 passes on a sabre 弋 to the next generation.), bottom: money 贝/貝 Since generations you have money, borrow me sth. |
喷 |
to spout, to spray, to spurt, to puff
Left: mouth 口, right: 贲 (grasses/thirty 卉, money 贝) The mouth spouts 30x money. |
赔 |
to suffer a financial loss, indemnify
Left: money 贝/貝, right: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit) The money is like spit out, I suffered a loss. |
账 |
bill, account, debt
Left: money 贝/貝, right: long 长/長 (Long mane in the wind of a galloping horse) It's related to money and it can be long: The bill! |
贸 |
trade, commerce
Top left: bend  , right: sword 刀, below: shell/money 贝/貝 Bent under the sword and the money is the trade. |
贝 |
cowrie, shellfish, shell money
Derived from the image of a shell 貝 with two antennas. |
财 |
wealth, money, riches, property, valuables
Left: shell/money 贝/貝, right: talent 才 (If the big man 大 balances on one foot, he is talented.) With money and talent you create wealth. |
贪 |
greedy, avaricious, corrupt, have desire for
Top: now 今 (Put the cover  into the corner フ Now!), bottom: money贝/貝 Who now wants all the money, is: greedy. |
贯 |
to pierce through, to pass through
Top: not 毋 (here: variant of mother 母), bottom: money 贝 Mother's money is pierced. |
贤 |
worthy or virtuous person, honorific
Top: knife 刂 in a hand 又, bottom: money 贝 Whoever with a knife in his hand shares money (with others), is a worthy person. |
贼 |
thief, traitor, wily, deceitful, evil
Left: money 贝/貝, right: military 戎 (Ten 十 halberds 戈 for the military.) Whoever takes money by force (=military-like) is a thief. |
赌 |
to gamble, to bet
Left: money 贝, right: person 者 (old man 耂 on the sun 日) The money is also used by the persons for gambling. |
婴 |
infant, baby
Top: 2x money 贝 (here: nipple 人 in a sucking mouth 冂), bottom: woman 女 Sucking mouths at the woman's nipples indicate infants/babies. |
赠 |
to give as a present, to repel, to bestow (title)
Left: shell/money 贝, right: formerly 曾 (=曽, At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly.) Money was formerly given as present. |
贫 |
poor, inadequate, deficient, garrulous
Top: to divide, part 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces), bottom: money 贝 If you have only a part of the money, you are poor. |
赖 |
to depend on, to trust, to renege, to blame
left: bundle 束, right: carry load 负 (With a load ⺈ at the backpack 冂 the person 人 bears a load) The bundle needs sb. to carry the load: That's what it is depending on. |
侧 |
the side, lateral, inclined
Left: person 亻, right: standard/rule 则 (money 贝 is cut/split 刂 by rules) The person observing the rules (=referee) stands at the side (of the play ground). |
贩 |
to retail, to buy and sell, to trade in, to peddle
Left: money 贝/貝, right: contrary, to oppose 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing) When you use your money "contrary", then at "buy and sell" in retail. |
愤 |
anger, furious, resentment, indignant
Left: feeling 忄, right: 贲 (grasses or thirty 卉 and money 贝) The feeling of paying thirty-fold money for these grasses is anger and indignation. |
贬 |
to diminish, reduce, devaluate, depreciate, censure
Left: money 贝/貝, right: short of, lack 乏 (person 人 and 'Z' [A person going zick-zack lacking sth.]) If money is lacking, it is diminished. |
贿 |
bribe, bribery
Left: money 贝/貝, right: have/exist 有 (I have hand  and body 月, thus I am existing.) If I want the money having/existing for me, is becomes a bribery. |
坝 |
dike, dam, embankment
Left: earth 土, right: money 贝/貝 You need earth and money for a dike. |
腻 |
greasy, unctuous, intimate, tired of
Left: body part 月/肉, right: two (anti-fraud) 贰 (Two 二 sabres 弋 and the money 贝 become an anti-fraud two.) For the body I received two sabres and money because it was so greasy. |
溅 |
splash, spatter, spill
Left: water 氵, right: inexpensive 贱 (If you only have money 贝 for two halberds 戋, you live inexpensive) The water is such inexpensive, that you can splash it. |
狈 |
wretched, in a difficult situation, distressed
Left: wild animal 犭(dog on the hind legs), right: money 贝/貝 Even a wild animal needs money or it is wretched. |
赁 |
to rent, to lease, to hire
Top: official duty 任 (A person 亻 as a scolor 士 with hat ノ has official duties.), bottom: money 贝 It can be an official duty to use money for renting sth. |
赂 |
bribery, bribe
Left: 贝, right: every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody) Money, that everybody (accepts) is bribery. |
赋 |
taxation, bestow on, endow with, poetic essay
Left: money 贝/貝, right: military 武 (correct 正 sabres 弋 for the military) The money for the military are the: taxes. |
攒 |
to bring together, collect, hoard, accumulate, save
Left: hand 扌, right: to praise, endorse 赞 (Foremost 先先 with money 贝 payments, one can praise and endorse.) That hand is praised, that brings together. |
贞 |
faithful, loyal, dependable, chaste
Top: fortune telling 卜 (crack in a turtle's shell, used for divining), bottom: money 贝 Who divines for money must be faithful. |
贾 |
merchant, to buy
Top: west 西 (sun moves 儿 below the horizon 一 at sunset in the west), bottom: money 贝/貝 A bag (= 西) with a handle (= 一) from the west and money has the: merchant. |
樱 |
cherry
Left: tree 木, right: infant, baby 婴 (Sucking mouths 冂 at the nipples 人 of the woman 女 indicate infants/babies - Here: 贝 as hanging cherries The tree with hanging cherries for the woman is: the cherry. |
贮 |
to store, to save, stockpile
Left: money 贝/貝, right: roof 宀 and one 一 We need money, because under the roof a stockpile shall be stored. |
琐 |
trifling, fragmentary
Left: king 王, right: small 小, money 贝/貝 For a king is small change trifling. |
赎 |
redeem, to ransom
Left: money 贝, right: to sell 卖 (For ten 十 [coins] the hat 乛 of the leader 头 is sold) - [leader 头 =big 大 with protruding eyes 丶] To use money for 'selling' means to redeem. |
赐 |
to confer, to bestow, to grant
Left: money 贝/貝, right: easy 易 (= warming sunshine) With money, it is easy that you are confered (allowed) something. |
赃 |
stolen goods, booty, spoils, loot
Left: money 贝/貝, right: farmstead 庄 (A building 广 with the earth 土) The money, that (is hidden) in a building under the earth, is a stolen good. |
赣 |
abbr. for Jiangxi 江西 province
Left: medal 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.), right: sitting cross-legged 夂 work 工, money 贝/貝 You get a medal for sitting at the work and money in: Jiangxi. |
贱 |
inexpensive, low, lowly
Left: money 贝/貝, right: 戋 (two 二 halberds 戈) If you only have money for two halberds, you live inexpensive and are low. |
鹦 |
parrot
Left: infant, baby 婴 (Sucking mouths 冂 at the nipples 人 of the woman 女 indicate infants/babies), right: bird 鸟 Like an infant (talks) this bird: the parrot. |
贻 |
to hand down, to bequeath
Left: money 贝/貝, right: platform, rack 台 (nose 厶 over the mouth 口) Money is the platform (=means of tranfer) for: handing over. |
赘 |
superfluous, redundant, cumbersome
Top: to ramble 敖 (The growing plant  would grow in all directions 方 and needs the 攵 [= stick 卜 in a hand 又] against rambling.), bottom: money 贝/貝 Rampling money is superfluous. |
赓 |
persist, continue (as a song)
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems 庚 (In the building 广 a hand  grasps a person 人 with the question of: his age), bottom: money 贝/貝 If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue) |
钡 |
barium (chemistry)
Left: metal 钅/金, right: money 贝/貝 Metal with the pronounciation 'bèi' as used at 'money' is: barium. |
贰 |
two (banker's anti-fraud numeral), to betray
Top: two 二, sabre 弋, bottom: money 贝 Two sabres and the money becomes an anti-fraud two. [1 to10 are: 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖拾] |
赡 |
to support, provide for
Left: money 贝/貝, right: excellent, verbose 詹 (Who, when looking upwards 厃, is using eight 八 words 言, is verbose.) Money is excellent when used for: supporting. |
呗 |
particle indicating necessity or obviousness
Left: mouth 口, right: money 贝/貝 The mouth says it for money: That is obvious. |
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