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师 |
master, teacher, expert
Left: knife刂, right: one 一 (here: stick) and cloth 巾 He comes with a knife, a stick and good cloth: The master! |
常 |
usually, frequently, often, common, general
Top: esteem, still 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.), bottom: cloth 巾 Esteem is given to this cloth: usually. |
希 |
rare, infrequent, hope/expect
Top: cross-stitch 㐅, below: cloth 布 A cross-stitch on a cloth is rare. |
帮 |
to help, to assist, to support, side (of boat etc)
Top: country/nation 邦 (= abundance 丰 in the villages⻏) [abundance 丰 = flourish plant], bottom: cloth 巾 If there is abundance in the villages you can give cloth as a help. |
带 |
belt, to raise
From Top: thirty 卅 (here: three settings at a belt 一), to cover 冖, cloth 巾 It can be set in three positions and it covers the clothings: The belt. |
市 |
market, city
Top: a cover 亠, below: fabric/cloth 巾 You will get covers and cloth in the city on the market. |
帽 |
hat, cap
Left: cloth 巾, right: emit (smoke) 冒 (Under the cover 冂 steam 二 is visible 目, because it is uprising.), but here 冂 and 二 together as: sun 日 The cloth to keep the sun 日 out of the eyes is: a cap. |
刷 |
brush, to paint, to brush
Left: bottocks in side view 尸 with cloth 巾 is here understood as tail [to be correct: 尾 means tail], right: knife刂 At the bottocks the 'cloth' [="tail"] is cut and used as: a brush. |
帅 |
handsome, graceful, commander in chief
Left: knife/cut刂, right: cloth/fabric 巾 If you use the knife for cutting the cloth, you will be handsome. |
巾 |
towel, general purpose cloth
Pictograph showing a thread in a piece of cloth 巾 (or a shirt with sleeves) |
币 |
money, currency, coins
Character is similar to city: 市 (cover 亠 and cloth 巾) Similar to the city it is related to money and currency. |
席 |
banquet, woven mat, seat (in an assembly, theater)
Outside: building 广, below: var. objects 廿, cloth 巾 In the building, they use things of cloth: as seats. |
幕 |
curtain, screen, canopy, tent
Top: negative 莫 (to sink/go down: sunset 日 between plants 艹,艹= 大) [sunrise is: 旦 or  ], bottom: cloth 巾 Sinking cloth is a curtain. |
制 |
system, to control, to manufacture, to regulat
Left: cow 牛, cloth 巾; right: knife刂 A cow wrapped in cloth and with a knife: what a system! |
幅 |
width, roll, banner, extent, range
Left: cloth 巾, right: barrel of rice wine 畐 (originally image of a barrel as an offering to the temple, thus signifying wealth and luck 福) This cloth is like a wine barrel: sufficient width for a banner. |
佩 |
admire, to respect, to wear (belt etc)
Left: person 亻, right: sail 几 (cf. wind 风) and cloth 巾 The person sees in the sail a piece of cloth, admires it and wants to wear it. |
饰 |
decoration, ornament, adorn, conceal
Left: food 饣/食, right: lying person  , cloth 巾 If the food is laid on a cloth, it is: a decoration. |
布 |
cloth, to declare, to announce
Left: hand  , right: cloth 巾 The hand is holding a cloth. |
狮 |
lion
Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: master, teacher 师 (knife刂, 帀 = 一 as head and fabric 巾 as fur) (The lion's fur is popular) The animal that you skin with a knife over its head is: the lion. |
帘 |
curtain, flag used as a shop sig
Top: hole 穴 (It is covered 宀 and a narrowing path 八 leads into the cave), bottom: cloth/fabric 巾 In front of the hole we put a fabric: The curtain. |
怖 |
terror, terrified, afraid, frightened
Left: feeling 忄, right: cloth 布 (A hand  holds a cloth 巾.) My feeling with this cloth is terror. |
帝 |
emperor
From top: stand 立, cover 冖, cloth 巾 Stand and cover yourself with cloth, the emperor is coming. |
吊 |
to hang up, hang a person, suspend (agreement)
Top: mouth 口 (here: crane or winch), below: fabric/cloth 巾 The crane is using a fabric for hanging things and make them suspended. |
帐 |
account book, covering veil, canopy, tent
Left: cloth 巾, right: long 长/長 (Long mane in the wind of a galloping horse) Cloth that is long, was used as an account book or as a canopy. |
滞 |
inhibit, block, sluggish
Left: water 氵, right: belt 带 (A belt 一 in 3 positions as a cover 冖 for the cloth 巾) (To build a pond with a dam/dike) The water within the 'belt' is inhibited & sluggish. |
砸 |
to smash, crush, to fail, to get it wrong
Left: stone 石, right: 匝 (embracement 匚, cloth 巾 (A stone in a loop/hanger of cloth is like a slingshot:) A stone in an sling of cloth is used to smash things. |
帆 |
sail, canvas
Left: cloth 巾, right: sail 几 with something 丶 (cf. ordinary 凡 table with a scratch) [cf. wind 风, which is simplified from 風] Cloth is commonly used for sails. |
幢 |
banner, classifier for buildings
Left: cloth 巾, right: child 童 (Standing 立 in the village 里: a child.) A cloth [as small as] a child is: a banner. |
帜 |
flag, banner, ensign
Left: cloth 巾, right: alone 只 (Here: piece of cloth 口 above two arms 八) The cloth that is hold above the arms is a flag. |
帖 |
fitting snugly, appropriate, to obey, invitation (message)
Left: cloth 巾, right: divine 占 A cloth to devine, that it is appropriately fitting snugly. |
筛 |
sieve, filter, to sift, screening (medicine)
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: master, teacher 师 (He has a knife 刂, a stick 一 and good cloth 巾) Bamboo 竹 was cut 刂 for it and the sieve 一 is made of cloth 巾: a sieve. |
涮 |
to rinse, hold briefly into boiling water
Left: water 氵, right: brush 刷 (The "tail" [= cloth 巾 at the buttocks 尸] is cut刂 and used as a brush) [cf. tail 尾] Use water and a brush for rinsing. |
帕 |
handkerchief, to wrap, headscarf
Left: cloth 巾, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.) The cloth in white is: the handkerchief. |
嫦 |
a legendary beauty who flew to the moon, the lady in the moon
Left: woman 女, right: usually 常 (His esteem 尚 is given to this cloth 巾 usually.) A woman should usually be in the moon. |
幌 |
advertising sign, pretense, facade, pretext
Left: cloth 巾, right: dazzle, swing 晃 (The sun 日 has light 光 that is dazzling, like swinging around.) The cloth that is dazzling, is the: advertising sign. |
幡 |
banner
Left: cloth 巾, right: foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.) This cloth shows, what is foreign: The banner! |
帷 |
curtain, screen
Left: cloth 巾, right: bird 隹 (in the breeze:) The cloth that (moves like) a bird is: a curtain. |
幔 |
curtain
Left: cloth 巾, right: handsome 曼 (Sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又) The cloth that is handsome is the: curtain. |
帧 |
frame, counter for pictures, one of a pair (scrolls)
Left: cloth 巾, right: faithful 贞 (Who divines 卜 for money 贝 must be faithful) With fabric that is faithfully (=sufficient strength), you can make a frame. |
帚 |
broom
Shows a hand and: a broom |
帛 |
silk
Top: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white), bottom: cloth, fabric 巾 The white cloth is: silk. |
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