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yuè
leap
足 + 夭yāo
lower leg + die young
Character Notes

Look before you leap to avoid a lower leg injury or dying young.

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service
彳 + 殳
queue + boomerang
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(like military service or servitude) Many Aboriginal Australians were forced into unfree labor service during colonization. Picture them queuing up and turning in their boomerangs.

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jiān
shoulder
户 + 月
door + body part
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Your shoulder is a hinged body part like a swinging door.

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bāo
lidded pot
保bǎo + 火
safeguard + fire
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You safeguard the food that is cooking over the fire by lidding the pot.

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áo
stew [v.]
土 + 放 + 灬
soil + release + cooking fire
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To stew something outside over a cooking fire, you put soil on top of the dutch oven, and then when it is done, release the steam.

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lithium
钅 + 里lǐ
metal + computer
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lithium battery to power a computer

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zhào
overspread
罒 + 卓zhuó
net + eminent/sun wizard
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Like a face covering, a net spreads over the eminent sun wizard.

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sòu
hack [v]
口 + 束 + 欠
mouth + bundle + lack/yawn
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You are so sick that even yawning causes you to hack up a bundle of phlegm.

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cough
口 + 亥
mouth + acorn
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You choke on an acorn and cough it out.

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snot
氵 + 弟dì
water + younger brother
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The water coming from your younger brother's nose is snot.

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ō
oh
口 + 奥ào
mouth + at great depth
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Oh, you are from Australia!

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ǹg
[expressing agreement]
口 + 恩ēn
mouth + kindness
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You can show kindness with your mouth by agreeing with someone.

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píng
folding screen
尸 + 并bìng
flag/corpse + combine
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Flags combine as a make-shift folding screen.

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hǎn
yell
口 + 咸xián
mouth + salty
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You yell with your mouth, "Too salty!"

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musical score
讠 + 普pǔ
microphone + universal
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Use a microphone to spread your musical score universally.

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wings
羽 + 田 + 共
wings + field + together
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Wings are all you can see in the field when a flock of birds are squabbling together.

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rèn
cooked food
饣 + 壬rén
food + knight
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This knight is particular about only eating cooked food.

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pēng
cooking method
亨hēng + 灬
go smoothly + cooking fire
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Picture a prosperous gentleman demonstrating a cooking method that goes smoothly over the cooking fire.

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hēng
go smoothly
亠 + 口 + 了
top hat + mouth + -ed
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The top hat’s speech went smoothly until he finish-ed.

a picture of a prosperous gentleman (whose life goes smoothly) with a top hat and beard

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