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sound of smacking lips
口 + 即jí
mouth + immediately
Character Notes

In anticipation of something yummy, your immediate reaction is smacking your lips.

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mán
deceive
目 + 艹 + 两
eye + flowers + yoke
Character Notes

Deceive them by yoking their eyes with flowers.

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nián
sticky
黍 + 占zhàn
grain tarp + tell fortunes
Character Notes

telling fortunes under a sticky and humid grain tarp

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dried meat
月 + 昔
body part + times past
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Dried meat was the body part of an animal in times past.

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squint
目 + 米mǐ
eye + rice
Character Notes

Squint your eyes until they look like two grains of rice.

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chī
sound of ripping or giggling
口 + 赤chì
mouth + crimson
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When you see the crimson drop of blood coming from the needle in the dancing penguin's head, your mouth giggles.

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pounce on
扌 + 卜bǔ
hand + magic wand
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You are trying to pounce on a moving object with your hand or a magic wand.

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dèng
glare [v]
目 + 登dēng
eye + ascend
Character Notes

As she glared at me, her eye ascended from my feet to the top of my head.

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suì
shattered
石 + 卒
stone + foot soldier
Character Notes

Foot soldiers vandalize army truck windows, shattering them with a stone.

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xié
slant
余 + 斗
excess + big dipper
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Excess weight on a scale made of two big dippers makes it slant.

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niān
pick up with a thumb and a finger
扌 + 占zhān
hand + tell fortunes
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The fortune teller picks up (with her thumb and a finger) an imaginary thread from the palm of your hand.

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toot
口 + 都dū
mouth + metropolis
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There are lots of tooting horns in a metropolis.

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mumble
口 + 鲁lǔ
mouth + Lu
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Lu mumbles as he sells his sun-dried fish.

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Lu
鱼yú + 日
fish + sun
Character Notes

Lu is a seller of sun-dried fish.

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zào
cooking stove
火 + 土
fire + soil
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a fire in a cooking stove built of soil

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[expression of surprise]
口 + 夷yí
mouth + barbarian
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A barbarian shows up at your party and you make an expression of surprise.

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dǔn
take a nap
目 + 屯tún
eye + stockpile
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They say you can't stockpile sleep, but a nap sure helps me keep my eyes open through the evening.

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péng
shed [n]
木 + 朋péng
tree/wood + companion
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The shed is a wooden clubhouse for your companions.

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suō
shrink
纟 + 宿sù
thread + stay overnight
Character Notes

You shrink your threads staying overnight in the dorms or at a slumber party.

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