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街
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| road, street
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Outside: to go 行, center: 圭 heap of soil 土 (= 2x earth)
I am going on elevated/piled earth: on a road.
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鞋
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| shoe
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Left: leather 革 (Horned 廿 animals 干 have a skin 口 of leather.), right: 2x earth 圭 = piled earth (cf. with road/street 街, where you walk 行 over piled earth 圭)
The leather for the piled earth (= the street) is: the shoe!
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封
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to seal, letter(=sealed objects), to grant
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Left: piled/cumulated earth 圭 (=2x earth 土), right: skillful hand 寸
(cf. street 街 [= I go 行 over piled earth 圭] - Thus at road construction:) Earth is piled up by skillful hands and sealed.
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挂
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to hang (from a hook), link (telephone), to be worried
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Left: hand 扌, right: 圭 (2x earth 土)
The hand needs something elevated, like double piled earth, to hang something.
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娃
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| baby, doll, pretty girl
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Left: woman 女, right: double earth 圭
The woman brings behind the two heaps of earth the baby to the earth.
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佳
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| beautiful, fine, good
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Left: person 人, right: 圭 = 2x earth 土 as piled earth path cf. street 街)
The person strutting on the mounds of earth (= a street) is of excellent beauty.
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崖
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| precipice, cliff
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Top: mountain 山, below: 厓 (cliff 厂, heap 圭 of soil 土)
From the mountain down to the cliff and the soil: a steep precipice.
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哇
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| Wow!, sound of child's crying or of vomiting
wā, wa
口
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Comprises: to vomit 吐 (From his mouth 口 to the ground 土 he disgorged his vomit) with an extra earth 土) [Or: heaps of earth 圭]
To vomit on the ground sounds like crying or vomiting.
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桂
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JLPT no HSK |
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| laurel, cassia, abbr. for Guangxi 广西壮族自治区
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Left: tree 木, right: piled earth 圭 (= 2x earth 土)
The tree on the piled earth is the laurel.
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蛙
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JLPT no HSK |
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| frog
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Left: insect 虫, right: piled earth 圭 (2x earth 土)
The "insect" at the field's ridge (= where earth is piled) is the frog.
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卦
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JLPT no HSK |
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| 8th divinatory trigram
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Left: 圭 (twice earth 土, here: part of way/street 街, where you walk over piled earth.), right: fortune telling 卜 (crack in a turtle's shell used for divining, sometimes also: forking of a way)
For the way's forking you use in fortune telling: the divinatory trigram.
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褂
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JLPT no HSK |
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| coat, jacket, gown, ensheath
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Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: trigram 卦 (Here part 圭 of path/road 街 where earth was piled up) & fork 卜 in the road.
The clothes for the street with the fork is the coat that ensheathes you.
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洼
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JLPT no HSK |
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| depression, sunken, swamp, hollow
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Left: water 氵, right: piled earth 圭 (twice earth 土)
Water (aggregates) within piled earth in: a depression.
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硅
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JLPT no HSK |
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| silicon (chemistry)
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Left: stone 石, right: piled earth 圭
The stones in the piled earth are: silicon.
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闺
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lady's chamber, boudoir, small arched door
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Outside: gate 门/門, inside: piled earth 圭 (Together with person 亻/人 this means: 'beautiful' 佳 (The person strutting 行 on the mounded street 街 is beautiful 佳)
Behind the gate is for the 'beautiful', the: lady's chamber.
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涯
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JLPT no HSK |
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| border, horizon, shore
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From left: water 氵, 厓 (cliff 厂, accumulated 圭 earth 土)
Water, a cliff or accumulated earth can (each) be a border.
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奎
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JLPT no HSK |
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| crotch, stride
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Top: big 大 (here: big person), bottom: piled earth 圭
A big person is over the piled earth with one stride.
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圭
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JLPT no HSK |
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| jade tablet
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Twice earth on top of each other 圭 as the image of a tablet. As a radical it is understood as: piled earth.
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恚
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JLPT no HSK |
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| anger, rage
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Top: piled earth 圭 (2x earth 土), bottom: heart 心
With twice earth in your heart you are: in anger.
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