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thunder 雷
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雷
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| thunder, terrific
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Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: field 田 [cf. Electricity 电: When lightning strikes the field 田, then the lightning rod 乚 has electricity]
Rain falls on the field amidst thunder. [Or: The rain 雨 on the field 田 without lightning 乚 (= electicity 电) has only a thunder.]
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蕾
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| bud
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds.
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擂
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JLPT no HSK |
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| beat, hit, to grind, to beat (a drum)
léi, lèi, lēi
扌
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雨
田
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Left: hand 扌, right: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
A hand like a thunder, when: beating.
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