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descendant
衣yī + 冏
clothing + dementor
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The clothing of the dementors is passed on to their descendants.

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chāo
copy [v.]
扌 + 少
hand + few
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copying characters: your hand starts to cramp after just a few times

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xiāng
side room
厂 + 相xiāng
cliff + one another
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consult with one another in the side room

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tāo
draw out
扌 + 匋táo
hand + lidded clay pot
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use hand to draw something out of the lidded clay pot

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yuàn
resentment
夗yuàn + 心
night crawler + heart
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feel resentment in your heart when you have to get up during the night to find night crawlers

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assemble
取qǔ + *豕
take + *sow
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take the dis-assembled sow and re-assemble it

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gǔn
trundle
氵 + 亠 + 公 + 𧘇
water + top hat + public + scarf
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in a spree of glee, the man threw off his top hat and scarf and rolled (trundled) in the public fountain

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scroll
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ào
of great depth
7 + 大
rice cooker + large dog
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There was a rice cooker retrieved at a great depth off the coast of Australia by the St Bernard.

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ào
*rice cooker
丶 + 冂 + 米
drop + hood + rice
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drop of steam coming out of the hood of the rice cooker

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cross-stitch
乂 x 4
X x 4
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cross-stitch is embroidery done with a stitch that makes an X

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zhǎi
strait
穴 + 乍zhà
hole + saw
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This hole is too strait for the saw to fit.

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shuǎng
frank [adj.]
大 + 㸚
large dog + cross-stitch
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Be frank about the St Bernard cross-stitch--it is time to let it go.

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lǎng
lucent
良liáng + 月
halo + moon
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Moondance

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láng
wolf
犭 + 良liáng
Aesop + halo
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"The Angel Wolf" There is a Lakota legend of an angel wolf that nurtured an injured woman. The woman learned the wolf ways and taught them to her people. You can picture this angel wolf on top of a precipice with the full moon behind her head like a halo. Moral: What we fear can be our savior. (Fables)

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desert [n.]
氵 + 莫mò
water + mirage
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water vapor creates a mirage in the desert

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jiàn
cheap
贝 + 戋jiān
shells + machine gun
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cheap plastic machine guns that only cost a few shells

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physician
匚 + 矢
box + dart
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big box physician, throw a dart at the list

"Max Dart wants to be a doctor." (Max Dart)

alternatively: 匚 + 𠂉 + 大 box + lying down + large, boxy office, with a patient lying down and big doctor helping him

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sprout
艹 + 牙yá
flowers + tooth
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In one culture, baby teeth are buried, and the sprouts that come up above them represent new adult teeth.

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