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precious, expensive 贵
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贵
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| precious, expensive, noble, your (name)
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Top: simplification of blooming flower 堇 with two blossoms ロ at a stem丨 growing from the ground 一, bottom: currency/shell 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell money)
Blooming flowers and money are precious.
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溃
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| be dispersed, break down, to fester/ulcerate
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Left: water 氵, right: precious, expensive 贵 (A blooming flower [simplf. from 堇] and money 贝 are precious)
Even water, which is that precious is dispersing (=evaporating) AND: Water is precious with: an ulcer/abscess.
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馈
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to make a present, offering to the god
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Left: eat 饣/食, right: precious, expensive 贵 (A blooming flower [simplf. from 堇] and money 贝 are precious)
Food, that is precious is offered as: a present (or offering).
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匮
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JLPT no HSK |
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| deficiency, to lack, empty, exhausted
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Left: frame 匚, right: precious, expensive 贵 (A blooming flower [simplified from 堇] and money 贝 are precious.)
If the frame for the precious things is open at the right, it is a deficiency. [..that needs to be corrected 匡]
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