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人 |
person, people, man
It shows a standing person with spread legs. (As a radical it looks like this: 亻) |
个 |
individual, this, that, size
Top: person 人, below: one 丨 A person as a "one" is an: individual. |
会 |
to meet, can, be possible, likely to, to assemble
Top: person 人, below: to say, cloud 云 (= two 二 noses 厶) When persons are speaking 云 together as "two noses" they meet and assemble. |
认 |
to recognize, to know, to admit
Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: person 人 By my words the person recognized me. |
今 |
now, today, present, current, this
Top: cover  , bottom: corner フ Put the cover into the corner! Now! |
坐 |
to sit, to take (a seat/a bus), bear fruit
Two people 人 on the earth/ground 土 Two people on the ground: they are sitting. |
喝 |
to drink, to shout loudly, My goodness!
Left: mouth 口, right: interrogation 曷 (= The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner  at the interrogation) His mouth wants (when the sun is over the wrapped person 人) something: to drink. |
茶 |
tea, tea plant
From top: plant 艹, person 人 and a tree 木 The plant (the leafs), which are plucked by a person from a tree, is tea. |
从 |
follow, obey, (passing) through, from ... to
Two persons 人 Two persons in a relationship where one follows and obeys. (Or: The one person follows the other.) |
以 |
to use, according to, by means of, in order to
From left: antique scratch plow レ, plow furrow 丶, person 人 The scratch plow has cut a plow furrow, which the person uses. |
介 |
between, lie between, introduce
Top: person 人, below: armor 八 A person in the shells of the armor is: in between. |
休 |
to rest, to cease, to stop doing sth.
Left: person 亻or 人, right: tree 木 The person goes to a tree to have a rest. |
两 |
both, two, a few, tael(=50 grams unit = two ounces)
Shows: inside 内 with one 一 further person 人, who is inside. (cf. third 丙) Two connected 一 persons are inside, thus both |
健 |
healthy, to be good at, to invigorate, strong, robust
Left: person 亻, right: building/construction 建 (You have a brush 聿 in your hand and need to move 廴 for building) A person who builds must be healthy and robust. |
借 |
to borrow, to lend, excuse
Left: person 亻, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old times.) (I did not forget:) This person has in the old days: borrowed sth. |
史 |
history, annals
Mouth 口 and person 人 with a wide step (cf. unit of length 丈) With the mouth, the person who made wide steps, tells his history. |
伞 |
umbrella, parasol
Image of an umbrella |
份 |
share, portion, part, copy (of magazine)
Left: person 人, right: to divide, part 分 (... with a sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces) The persons get each a part as their share. |
队 |
troops, team, squadron, group
Left: hill 阝 (If this radical: 阝is at the left of a character it means 'hill', otherwise it means 'village'), right: person 人 On the hill the persons are posted as troops. |
付 |
to hand over to, deliver, to pay
Left: person 亻/人, right: skillful hand 寸 A person with a skillful hand, who hands over sth. or pays. |
众 |
many persons, numerous, crowd
Shows three times the sign for person 人 Three persons stand for many people. |
内 |
inside, inner, interior
Outside: enclosure 冂, inside: person 人 The enclosure keeps the person inside. |
低 |
low, to lower (one's head), to hang down
Left: person 人, right: floor, foundation 氐 (The family 氏 sits down 一 on the floor.) The person on the floor is in a low position. |
全 |
all, whole, entire, every, complete
Top: person 人, bottom: king 王 The person of the king owns all and wholely. |
倒 |
to fall, to collapse, to go bankrupt
From left: person 亻, get to/reach 到 (至 arrow falling back to earth 土), knife 刂 The person reaches the knife and falls into it. |
偶 |
accidental, image, pair, mate
Left: person 人, right: scorpion 禺 (image of a scorpion: combination of a carapace 田, insect 虫 and long legs 冂) The person's meeting with the scorpion was accidentally but they formed a pair. |
倍 |
(two, three etc) -fold, times (multiplier)
Left: person 人, right: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit) Persons often spit many-fold. |
傲 |
proud, arrogant, to despise, unyielding, to defy
Left: person 人, center top: abundance 丰 (= strongly growing plant with many branches 三), rest: release/let go 放 (In his side 方 he was striked 攵, until he released) A person who is in abundance and lets things go, is: proud and arrogant. |
传 |
to pass on, to conduct (electricity), to transmit
Left: person 人, right: focussed 专/專 (The skier in the squat position with poles 二 in the hands is focussed) A person has to be focussed when he wants to pass on sth. |
伴 |
partner, companion, comrade
Left: person 人, right: half 半 (A knife 丨 cuts a birthday cake 二 with candles 丷 in half.) A person is only half without a partner. |
俗 |
custom, convention, popular, vulgar, coarse
Left: person 人, right: valley 谷 (pictograph of a valley opening towards the plain 口) People in the valleys have commonly coarse customs. |
余 |
remaining, extra, surplus
Top: a heap  , bottom: Variant of show 示 (= This shows an altar 丁, with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 dropping down.) A heap on the altar shows that something is in excess. |
令 |
to order, to command, warrant
Top: lid  , below: bent person 卩 A lid on the bent person: That's the order. |
企 |
to plan a project, company, to stand on tiptoe
Top: person 人, below: stop 止 (imprint of a right foot that stops at a line 一 ) (Better to prepare at ease/calmness:) The person should stop for planning the project. |
俊 |
smart, eminent, handsome, talented
Left: person 人, right: dawdle 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂) A person with such a nose, legs and contorted feet must be smart. |
依 |
to depend on, according to, rely on
Left: Person 人, right: clothing 衣 (Dress for success:) How the person dresses, it is depending on. |
催 |
to urge, to press, to prompt, to rush sb
Left: person 人, right: high mountain 崔 (=mountain 山 only for birds 隹) Person want to the high mountains, where only birds are: Thereto, they are urged. |
促 |
to urge, urgent, to press (for action), hurried
Left: person 人, right: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止) A person uses the foot to urge (himself). |
闪 |
spark, flickering, flash, lightning, to sprain
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: person 人 When the person (jumped) through the gate, it happened quickly like a flash, and he sprained. |
傍 |
near, approaching, to depend on
Left: person 人, right: one side, beside 旁 ([The servants] are in one direction 方 (side) of the emperor 帝 [modified]: at his side.) The person approaching the emperor's side is near to him. |
伸 |
to stretch, to extend
Left: person 人, right: say/tell 申 (here: two hands E 彐 pulling at sth. | The persons with the hands pull to stretch it. |
仙 |
immortal, god, supernatural entity
Left: person 人, right: mountain 山 A person like a mountain, that is: the immortal god! |
仓 |
warehouse, barn, granary, cabin
Left: person 人, right: slumped person 㔾 (here: roll of fabric) Under the pointed roof, a roll of cloth is in the warehouse. |
儒 |
Confucius, scholar
Left: person 人, right: require, need 需 (Rain[water] 雨 on the beard 而 is needed [for care]) People need confucianism. Or: The person in the rain with the (long) beard, is: Confucius. |
侵 |
to invade, to encroach, to infringe, to approach
Left: person 人, right: variant of broom 帚 (hand holding a broom)[cf. to return 归, which was traditionally: 帰] A person came to you (= where your broom is) and: invaded. |
倘 |
if, supposing, in case
Left: person 人, right: esteem, to value 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.) This person should be respected, if .... |
偏 |
biased, one-sided, prejudiced, inclined, slant
Left: person 人, right: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.) (As if they had their fixed opinion on a sign around their neck:) People who are flat like a door plate are biased and one-sided. |
仰 |
to admire, to face upward, to look up, to rely on
Left: person 人, right: 卬 ([at the left] an odd person 人 bowing down 卩 deeply [at the right]) The person is odd but bows down deeply, because he: admires. |
伏 |
to subdue, to conceal oneself, hibernation
Left: person 人, right: dog 犬 (The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶) A person is like a dog, when he subdues. |
侮 |
to insult, to ridicule, to disgrace
Left: person 人, right: each/often 每 (every person 人 =  has a mother 母 [母 = breastfeeding woman 女 with emphasized bosom : ]) A person, everbody wants to insult. |
侯 |
marquis, nobleman or high official
Left: person 人, right: 矦 (var. of bent person ⺈ and arrow 矢) The person to whom another person with an arrow bows, is: a marquis. |
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. |
仲 |
second amongst brothers, intermediate
Left: person 人, right: middle/center 中 The person in the middle is (by age) the second (of the brothers). |
僚 |
bureaucrat, colleague, fellow-worker
Left: person 人, right: 尞 (big 大, out of 丷, day 日, small 小) Someone who takes care of the big (things) as well as every day of the small is a bureaucrat. |
仕 |
civil servant, an official
Left: person 人, right: scholar 士 A person must be a scholar to become a civil servant. |
庚 |
age, 7th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 十天干
Left: building 广, right: hand  , person 人 In the building, a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age. |
佟 |
surname Tong
Left: person 人, right: winter 冬 (With an upturned foot 夂 on the ice 冫- it's winter.) This person's name is: winter, Mr. Tong. |
俞 |
to assent, approve, OK
Is understood as an arrowhead (sharp angled  cover and variation from: front 前 (or arrow 箭), which gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂. When the arrowhead get into the body and cuts, I am assenting. |
伎 |
trick, scheme, skill, tactic, craft
Left: person 人, right: twig 支 (twig 十 and hand 又) The person (balancing) a twig in the hand shows a skillful trick. |
囚 |
prisoner
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: person 人 The person inside the enclosure is a prisoner. |
曳 |
drag, pull, to tow
(Due to the weight, the person 人 is deformed) A person 人 with a heavy load 日 on the shoulders who is dragging or pulling. |
仑 |
arrange, (mountain range in Xinjiang)
Top: person 人, bottom: sitting person 匕 When a person turns into a sitting person, he is well arranged. |
噗 |
sound of escaping laughter, to water
Left: mouth 口 (here: container), right: thicket, tedious 菐 (In hollow 业 things the orchid 兰 grows and the person 人 takes it out of the: thicket) The container is hollow for an orchid and the person makes a laughing sound when watering. |
僧 |
monk, Sangha, the Buddhist monastic order
Left: person 人, right: formerly 曾 (At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly) The person, who refers to the "formerly" is a monk. |
戍 |
garrison, to protect
Mainly: halberd 戈, and left: person 人 The persons with the halberds form the garrison. |
赓 |
persist, continue (as a song)
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems 庚 (In the building 广 a hand  grasps a person 人 with the question of: his age), bottom: money 贝/貝 If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue) |
璞 |
unpolished gem
Left: king, jade 王, right: thicket, tedious 菐 (In hollow 业 things the orchid 兰 grows and the person 人 takes it out of the: thicket) If the jade appears like in a 'thicket', it is an: unpolished gemstone. |
俸 |
salary
Left: person 人, right: to offer (to superior) 奉 (Three 三 persons 人 stretch out hand 扌,手 respectfully for offering) A person gives to three persons with open hands their: salary. |
蓓 |
(flower) bud
Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: (two, three ..)-fold 倍 (The persons 人 spit 咅 many-fold.) The plant multiplies with the bud. |
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