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电 |
electricity, electrical
Rice field 田 with a lightning conductor/arrester 乚 for leading electricity. If lightning strikes in the rice field, the lightning arrester has: electricity. |
绳 |
rope
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: toad 黾 (The animal 口 on the field 田 with the long tongue 乚. HERE: At the rope-maker the rope 乚 is clamped in two holding jaws 口,日 for being twisted.) Threads are clamped twice to make/twist the rope 乚. |
掩 |
to conceal, cover up, surprise
Left: hand 扌, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e. lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚] The hand makes a sudden movement to conceal sth. |
淹 |
to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay
Left: water 氵, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚] If the water comes suddenly, then as a flood, where you drown. |
蝇 |
fly, musca
Left: insect 虫, right: toad 黾 (= The animal 口 on the field 田 with the long tongue 乚.) The insect for the toad, is the fly. |
龟 |
turtle, tortoise
Top: kneeling person ⺈, bottom: electricity 电 (field 田 with lightning rod 乚) A head ⺈, body 田 and tail 乚 of a: turtle! |
俺 |
I (northern dialects)
Left: Person 人, right: suddenly 奄 (the big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning rod 乚] (I am full of energy:) The person with big electricity, that is me. |
庵 |
hut, small temple, nunnery
Outside: building 广, below: suddenly 奄 (the big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning rod 乚] A building that (can be built) suddenly, is a small hut. |
奄 |
suddenly, abruptly, hastily, to cover
Top: big 大, bottom: electricity 电 (field 田 with lightning rod 乚) (Lightning strike:) The big electricity comes suddenly. |
阉 |
to castrate, a castrate, neuter
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: suddenly 奄 (i.e. a lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚] (Climbing over) the gate, the big electricity made him: a castrate. |
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