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这 |
this, these, present, now
Left: movement 辶, right: text/language 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.) In languages you have movements (= changes): Also in this. |
文 |
text, language, culture, writing, literary
Looks like a folding table At the folding table you can write your text. |
济 |
to cross a river, to aid or relieve, to be of help
Left: water 氵, right: be in the same level 齐 (A text 文 lays flatly on two vertical sticks 丿|, that are in the same level.) If the water is the same level (no eddies or rapids), you can easily cross the river. |
挤 |
crowded, to squeeze, throng
Left: hand 扌, right: be in the same level 齐 (A written text 文 lays flatly on two vertical sticks 丿|, that are in the same level.) When the hands are on the same level, it is a crowded throng. |
齐 |
same level with, even sth out, of equal length
Top: text/language 文, below: 丿| (two vertical sticks) If you can lay a text on two vertical sticks, it is in the same level. |
浏 |
clear, deep (of water), swift, to skim over / to browse
Left: water 氵, right: 刘 (script, cultur 文 [Image of a folding table for writing a text], knife 刂 [here: two pages]) Like "through the water" you read scripts (2 pages each), when skimming over. |
纹 |
line, trace, mark, decoration
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: text, language 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.) Threads and texts are in lines or traces. |
斑 |
stained, spot, colored patch, stripe
From left: king 王, text/language 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.), king 王 The letter exchanged between the kings had a stained spot. |
剂 |
dose, medical substance
Left: be in the same level 齐 (A written text 文 lays flatly on two vertical sticks丿|, that are in the same level.), right: knife, to cut刂 For achieving the same (=correct) level/amount, you cut it and get the dose. |
坟 |
grave, tomb, mound
Left: earth 土, right: text/language 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.) (Inscription at graveyard:) The earth with the text is: the grave. |
紊 |
tangled, disorderly, confused, chaotic
Top: text/language 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.), bottom: thread 糸 Texts (or sentences) that are thread-long are tangled. |
吝 |
stingy
Top: language, culture 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.), bottom: mouth 口 A cultivated mouth can be stingy. |
斋 |
study room, building, vegetarian, to give alms
Top: text, language 文 (image of a folding table, on which a text is written), bottom: beard 而 (closed mouth 一 with a beard 皿) Immersed in a book, the beard grows in the study room. |
虔 |
to act with reverence, reverent
Top: tiger 虍, below: text/language 文 (image of a folding table, on which a text is written) Towards a tiger, your language should be with: reverence. |
斌 |
refined, ornamental
Left: text, language 文, right: military 武 (A correct 正 sabre 弋 for the military) (Due to the clarity of orders?) The texts in the military are refined. |
蚊 |
mosquito
Left: insect 虫, right: text/language 文 The insect you can kill with a text is a mosquito. |
雯 |
multicolored clouds, cloud pattern
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: text/language 文 (also 云 means cloud) When rain is decribed with text (= poetically), then as multicolored cloud pattern. |
悯 |
to sympathize, to pity, to feel compassion for
Left: feeling 忄, right: 闵 (gate 门/門, text/language 文) (He is in the pillory) The feeling when his name is on the gate is to: sympathize. |
斐 |
elegant, (phonetic) fěi, phi (Greek letter φ)
Top: not, denial 非 (inverted wings 羽, here: lines and columns), below: text/language 文 If you arrange it in lines and columns, the text is: elegant. |
刘 |
Surname: Liu
Left: text/language 文 (image of a folding table, on which a text is written), right: knife, to cut刂 Who manages the texts and the cutting: Family Liu. |
闵 |
(Family name) Min
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: text/language 文 At the gate a text at family: Min |
汶 |
Wen River in northwest Sichuan
Left: water 氵, right: text/language 文 The water of the texts: the Wen-River. |
脐 |
navel
Left: body part 月/肉, right: be in the same level 齐 (A text 文 lays flatly on two vertical sticks 丿|, that are in the same level.) The body's part that is always the same level (in the sense of center) is the navel. |
斓 |
multi-colored, brightly colored, gorgeous
Left: Variation of text/language 文, right: railing, balustrade 阑 (At the gate 门/門 is made of wood 木 with handles 日: a railing) The language at the gate in the east 东/東 is colorful and gorgeous. |
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