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前 |
front, ahead, before, first, former
Top: a part 䒑 of the head/horns of a sheep 羊, bottom: meat 月/肉, knife, cut刂 The horns and the flesh are cut (beginning) at the front position. |
明 |
bright, clear, to understand
A combination of sun 日 and moon 月 Both sun and moon shine bright. |
月 |
moon, month
The component 月 stands for "moon", "month" or "body part". At the usage of "body part", this radical 肉 is used. Image of the ascending moon |
期 |
a period of time, phase
Left: image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing) 其, that is used for throwing up the grain rhythmically [thus used in period 期] to separate the corn from the husk), right: moon/month 月 Grain scoops and the moon are only seen: periodically. |
阴 |
Moon, cloudy, shady, rearside, Yin of (Yin:阴/Yang:阳)
Left: hill 阝, right: moon 月 The hill is on its "moon-side" shady, thus the: Yin. |
望 |
to expect, to hope, to visit, to gaze (into the distance)
Top: death 亡 (coffin in cross-section), body 月, bottom: king 王 The dead body of the king goes with our expectations. |
熊 |
bear, raging flames
Top: talent, ability 能 (nose 厶, body 月 and claws 匕匕 prove talent.), bottom: four legs 灬 The talent on four legs is the bear. |
猜 |
to guess, assume, conjecture
Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: green/blue 青 (Growing plants  appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.) When a wild animal appears like a plant in the moonshine, one only can guess (what it is). |
钥 |
key
Left: metal 钅(=金), right: moon 月 (here: image of a key, where the 3 horizontal lines are coding bits) He is made of metal and has a coding: the key. |
朝 |
government, morning, audience, pilgrimage
Left: sunrise  (The sun 日 rises between plants 艹.) [Sunset is: 莫], right: moon 月 At sunrise, when the moon is still there, it is the morning [zhāo] and I make a pilgrimage to the government [cháo]. |
朗 |
clear, bright, optimistic
Left: variation of good 良, right: moon 月 The good old moon is clear and optimistic. |
霸 |
tyrant, hegemon, to rule by force, to usurp
Top: rain 雨, below: leather 革 (Horned 廿 animals have a skin 口 of leather; but here: animals in general.), moon 月 He controls the rain, the animals and the moon: The tyrant! |
盟 |
oath, pledge, union, to ally, league
Top: bright/clear 明 (sun 日, moon 月), below: bowl/plate 皿 On a bright plate, it is presented: the oath of pledge. |
啃 |
to gnaw, to nibble, to bite
Left: mouth 口, right: to agree 肯 (Stop 止 that body 月 if you agree.) The mouth stops only, when from the body (everything) is: gnawed. |
荫 |
shade
Top: grass 艹, bottom: moon, rearside, Yin 阴 (The hill 阝is on its "moon-side" 月 shady, thus the: Yin) Only grass can grow at the "moon"-side of the hill: in the shade. |
髓 |
marrow (spinal or plant's stem), essence, pith
Left: sceleton 骨, right: 遀 (movement 辶, part of lazy 惰 [I feel 忄, that the left 左 [half] of my body 月 is lazy]) The sceleton has during movement sth. lazy: The marrow. |
朦 |
hazy, deceive, indistinct
Left: moon, body 月, right: to deceive, cheat 蒙 (Under the plants 艹 and under the cover 冖 there shall be a/one 一 pig 豕? You deceiver!) The moon light can be deceiving, because it hazy. |
胧 |
hazy moonlight, hazy, unclear
Left: body 月, right: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a dragon ノ) His body appeared like a dragon in the hazy moonlight. |
棚 |
shed, canopy, shack
Left: tree 木, right: friends 朋 (Two bodies 月/肉 next to each other are friends.) This tree will be within two months: a shed. |
朕 |
I, we (imperial use), subtle
Left: body 月, right: to close 关 (The mountain pass 丷 in the sky 天 is closed.) A body from heaven: that's Us. |
朔 |
new moon, beginning, first day of lunar month
Left: disobedient 屰 (A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked), right: moon 月 If the 'disobedient' moon does not shine, it is new moon. |
婿 |
son-in-law
Left: woman 女, right: 胥 (var. of correct/proper 正, body 月) The woman wants a "proper body" as son-in-law. |
炙 |
to roast, BBQ, to broil, to toast
Top: meat lying flatly 月 (as known for example from sacrifice 祭), below: fire 火 If the meat is over the fire, then it is roasted. |
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