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雪 |
snow, snowfall
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: hand Rain that you can hold in your hand is: snow. |
急 |
urgent, pressing, rapid, hurried
From top: inflected person ⺈, hand  /彐, heart 心 The inflected person holds the hand to the heart, because he was in an urgent hurry. (and now is exhausted) |
当 |
to act as, match equally, suitable, adequate
Top: small 小, bottom: hand  /彐 Even a small hand acts as such. |
扫 |
to sweep, broom
Left: hand 扌, right: hand  /彐, which is simplified from 掃 showing a hand holding a broom 冖巾. It is the hand that has the broom: to sweep. |
录 |
diary, record, to hit, to copy
Top: hand 彐, bottom: liquid 水 (Compare with: green 绿 where a hand  /彐 squeezes fiber 纟 and green liquid 水 drops down.) When the hand squeezes out a liquid this means: 'diary' or 'keeping records'. |
妇 |
married woman
Left: woman 女, right: hand  /彐 (traditional: 婦 with a broom in the hand) The woman who gave her hand, is a married woman. |
归 |
to go back, to return, to resign, conclude
Left: knife 刂, right: hand  /彐; simplified from 帰 or 歸. Showed originally a man with a sword who returns to his wife 帚 (=hand with broom) When the man with a sword is at his wife 妇 (today: hand without broom) he has returned. |
灵 |
spirit, departed soul, quick, alert, efficacious, effective
Top: hand  /彐, below: fire 火 Just as the hand cannot grasp fire, it is with the spirit. |
慧 |
intelligent, wisdom, knowledge
Top: comet 彗 (It does not 非 fall into your hands  /彐: The comet), bottom: heart 心 If you make double wings from inverted wings 非 with your hands and you have a heart, you are intelligent. |
寻 |
to search, to look for, to seek
Top: hand  /彐, below: skillful hand 寸 Use both hands for searching. |
档 |
file, shelve, official records, grade (of goods)
Left: tree 木, right: act as 当 (Also a small 小 hand  /彐 acts as such.) A tree can also act as a file or shelve. |
挡 |
keep off, to resist, obstruct hinder, to block
Left: hand 扌, right: 当 (=small 小 hand  /彐) With a hand, a small hand is kept off. |
隐 |
concealed, secret, hidden, crypto-...
Left: hill 阝, right: urgent/hurry 急 (The bent person ⺈ holds hand  /彐 to heart 心, because he was in hurry (and now is exhausted) He used the hill, for urgently hiding and concealing it. |
浸 |
to immerse, to soak, to steep, gradually
Left: water 氵, right: var. of a hand  holding a broom 帚 The water in the broom gets soaked up. |
彗 |
comet
Top: vari. of not 非 (shows opposite wings 羽), bottom: hand  /彐 It does not fall into your hands: The comet. |
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