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书 |
book, letter, document
Simplified variante of writing 聿 (hand  with pen 丨 writes two lines 二) With the brush in the hand I write two lines of a book. |
习 |
to practice, to study, habit
Shows half of feathers/wings 羽 With only half wings, you especially have to practice. |
也 |
also, too
Shows a bending creature, like a snake or scorpion. |
艺 |
art, skills, talent, craft
Top: plant 艹, below: at second position 乙 (Two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) Plants can at the second position also be seen as art. |
忆 |
memory, to recollect, to remember
Left: feelings 忄, right: at second position 乙 (The number 'two' 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) The feeling that comes after, in second place, is the memory. |
乙 |
second in order: a,b,c
Shows the number two 二, written quickly, without lifting the pen. |
亿 |
100 million (=10^8)
Left: person 亻, (here: "1"), right: 乙 at second position 乙 (Number 'two' 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) (If you continue the line of 乙 to the upper left, you get an eight 8) A "one" with 8 zeros -> 100 million. |
挖 |
to dig, to excavate, to scoop out
Left: hand 扌, right: 穵 (hole 穴, second 乙 [Thenumber 'two' 二 written quickly, without lifting the pen.]) By hand the hole is made by the two of us: by digging. |
乞 |
to beg
Top: lying person  as a person 人 that is horizontal, below: at 2nd position 乙 (two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) There lies a disadvantaged person (= from the second 乙 class of the society): a beggar. |
乾 |
warming principle of the sun, trad. form of dry 干
Left: 倝 sunrise  (sun 日 rises between plants 艹) [sunset is: 莫], right: horizontal person  , 2nd 乙 (two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen) At sunrise, the horizontal person feels at second position the warming sun. |
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