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to open, to start, to turn on
kāi
Shows an open gate with a double cross-bar, as it is common at the entrance of buddhist temples and means: "open".
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to calculate, to compute, regard as, to figure
suàn From top: bamboo 竹, the image of an abacus 目 [= counting board], and two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined)
I use the bamboo abacus with both hands to calculate.
| 算 竹 目 廾 |
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to juggle, play with, lane, alley, to fool with
lòng|nòng Top: king 王 (here: four sticks: 三,丨), bottom: two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined.)
With four sticks in the hands he is juggling, or playing in the alley.
| 王 廾 |
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warning, guard against, to exhort, to admonish
jiè Left: two hands 廾 (= twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined), right: halberd 戈
Two hands are holding up a halberd to warn and admonish.
| 戒 廾 戈 |
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to spout, to spray, to spurt, to puff
pēn|pèn Left: mouth 口, right: 贲 (grasses/thirty 卉, money 贝)
The mouth spouts 30x money.
| 口 卉 廾 贝 |
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ascend, to raise, metric liter
shēng Two hands 廾 where the left hand is holding a bottle ノ with one liter. [hands 廾 = twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined]
Two hands when ascending.
| ノ 廾 |
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to hurry, rush, to run quickly, elope, towards
bēn|bèn Top: big 大, bottom: thirty, grasses 卉 (=ten 十, twenty 廾)
The big man hurries thirty-fold away.
| 大 卉 廾 |
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carriage, sedan chair, public/world
yú Outside: mortar 臼 (= two hands E,ヨ pressing from the sides), inside: vehicle 车/車, below: two hands 廾 (= twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined)
The vehicle that requires four hands is the sedan chair.
| 臼 车 廾 |
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harm, defeat, detriment, fraud
bì Top: shabby, (modest) I, myself 敝 (The cloth 巾 is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and then as shabby as I am.), below: two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 next to each-other and combined)
The four shabby pieces of cloth were striked by two hands and (now) are harmed.
| 敝 攴 廾 |
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different, other, unusual, separate
yì (simplified from: 異) Top: year of snake 巳 (here: self 己 = Following the winding path I find myself.), bottom: two hands 廾 (= twice this hand 屮 next to each-other and combined)
The "self" of my two hands is different.
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machine, appliance, tool, gear, mechanical
xiè Left: tree 木, right: admonish/warning 戒 (two hands 廾 holding a halberd 戈 to admonish)
If you use wood and your hands to make a halberd, you need: a machine.
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anger, furious, resentment, indignant
fèn 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.
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commandment, to admonish, prohibit
jiè Left: word 讠/言, right: to warn 戒 (Two hands 廾 are holding a halberd 戈 to warn) [hands 廾 = twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined]
Words to warn as a commandment.
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paralysis, numbness
bì Left: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), right: 畀 (Rice field 田, two hands 廾 without the upper parts)
The disease, when at the field's work the hands are (almost) missing: The paralysis.
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to reject, to disregard
pàn|pīn Left: hand 扌, right: 弁 (nose 厶, two hands 廾)
The hand is used to cover the nose with the hands and this means: rejection.
| 扌 厶 廾 |
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plants, grass
huì Top: ten 十, bottom: twenty 廾 (also understood as two hands 屮,屮)
Like a meadow this stands thirty-fold for plants and grasses.
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govern, normal nature of man, laws and rules
yí From top: Part of spoool 互, rice 米, thread 糸, two hands 廾
When you (wrap) on a spool some rice grains using a thread and both hands, you 'govern'.
| 丩 来 糸 廾 |
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