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错
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| flawed, mistake, wrong, interlocking, to polish
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Left: metal/gold 钅(=金 Covered  in the ground 土 are 2 gold nuggets 丷), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old times.)
(Today's steel is better) The metal of former times was flawed.
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借
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| to borrow, to lend, excuse
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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.
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惜
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| regret, pity, to rue, to begrudge
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Left: feeling 忄, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old days)
(Times are getting harder:) Feelings we had in the old days, were the regrets.
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籍
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| registry, book or record, membership, nationality
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: 耤 (a tree 耒 used as a tally stick with many notches 丰, cut into to count things, right: old days 昔
Bamboo or tally sticks were in old days used as a registry.
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措
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to handle, to manage, measure, to execute
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Left: hand 扌, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old days.)
By hands in the old days measures were handled and managed.
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醋
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| vinegar, jealousy (in love rivalry)
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Left: alcohol 酉, right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times)
It was alcohol in former times, now it's changed to vinegar.
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昔
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| former times, the past
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Top: 龷 (here: together 共 = Put the plants 艹 on the table  together.), bottom: sun 日
Together in the sun we think of the old days.
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蜡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| candle, wax
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Left: insect 虫 (here: a bee 蜂), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times)
This insect (= the bee) was in former times used for the wax of the candles.
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猎
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| hunting
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Left: wild animal 犭(here: hound [dog for hunting]), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times.)
Hounds were formerly used for hunting.
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腊
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JLPT no HSK |
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| December, preserved (meat)
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Left: body, meat 月/肉, right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former days)
When we eat the meat from former times (= sth. preserved), it is: December.
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藉
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JLPT no HSK |
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| by means of, to insult, sleeping mat
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Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: rely on, plow 耤 (tree 木 with many branches 丰), right: old days 昔
It is growing the plant as a tree with many branches if in old days (=before), the plow furrows 一 were done. This is by means of them.
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鹊
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JLPT no HSK |
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| magpie
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left: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times), right: bird 鸟/鳥
(Magpies have a good memory) A sense for 'former times' has this bird: the magpie.
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