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年 |
year
An emphasis ノ at the trunc of a tree | with three 三 branches  /丰 and another emphasis ノ. The emphases are fruits.) When the trees have fruits, it again has passed: a year. |
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平 |
equal, flat, level, calm
Image of a balance
A balance is balancing until both sides are equal and flat. |
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干 |
dry, clean, tree trunk, to concern
Pictograph of a drying rail (laundry rack)
On the drying rack it becomes dry. |
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于 |
in, at, to, from, by, than, out of
Looks at the bottom 亅 like an umbrella 伞 and keeps dry 干 (dry 干 = laundry rack)
I always have an umbrella at me. |
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赶 |
to hurry, to rush, to catch up, to overtake
Left: go/walk 走 (On earth 土 feet 足 have to walk.), right: dry 干 (Here: laundry rack)
(It might rain:) I am (now) going to still stay dry and thus I am in a hurry. |
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汗 |
sweat, perspiration
Left: water 氵, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
Water dries like sweat. |
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岸 |
shore, beach, coast, haughty
Top: mountain 山, below: 厈 (a cliff 厂 and dry 干) [干 = laundry rack for drying.]
It is mountainous with dry cliffs, at: the shore. |
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杆 |
pole, stick, lever, "long objects"
Left: tree 木, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
A tree that is dry (= dead), serves as a pole. |
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罕 |
rare, seldom
Top: Variant of hole 穴 (It is covered 宀 and a narrowing path 八 leads into the cave), bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
(Water collects in holes) A hole that is dry is rare and seldom. |
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旱 |
drought
Top: sun 日, bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
If the sun is particularly drying, it is a drought. |
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刊 |
to print, to publish, publication
Left: dry 干 (laundry rack), right: knife刂 (Here: see the knife as printing plates 刂)
You need dry printing plates for printing & publishing. |
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捍 |
ward off (a blow)
Left: hand 扌, right: drought 旱 (The sun 日 has dried 干.)
By hand the drought is warded off. |
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肝 |
liver
Left: body part 月/肉, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
(no fluid flows out) A body part that is relatively dry, is the liver. |
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轩 |
pavilion with a view, high, tall, curtained carriage (old)
Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart with axle丨 load-area 日 wheels 二), right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
The vehicle in which you stay dry is the high carriage. |
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竿 |
pole, mast, stick/club
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
When bamboo becomes a laundry rack, you use it as a pole. |
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悍 |
fierce, violent, heroic, courageous, intrepid, dauntless
Left: feelings 忄, right: drought 旱 (the sun 日 has dried 干)
(The plants are withered) The feelings at this drought are fierce. |
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奸 |
traitor, adultery, wicked, crafty
Left: woman 女, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
The woman who is conspicuously "dry" is the traitor. |
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鼾 |
snore, to snore
Left: nose 鼻 (because of hay fever) I myself 自 in a field 田 of plants 艹 and I feel my nose), right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
If the nose is dry, you snore. |
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