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accuse
讠 + 斥
microphone + bloody axe
Character Notes

camp leader comes across a bloody axe and says in the microphone: What happened here? Everyone accusing each other.

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grain of [m.w.]
米 + 立lì
rice + stand up
Character Notes

this measure word stands next to small grains of things like rice

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fāng
direction, *compass
丶 + 万
drop + ten thousand
Character Notes

ten thousand directions on a compass, moves by a drop

as a component: ”方字旁“

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xián
leisure
门mén + 木
gate + tree
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leisure garden with a gate and trees inside

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shū
book
𠃌 + 𠃌 + 丨 + 丶
coat hook + coat hook + stick + drop
Character Notes

hang your book bag on the coat tree

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jīng
go across
纟 + Bjīng
thread + crane
Character Notes

A thread connected to the crane carries the I-beam to go across to the building.

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shì
test [n./v.]
讠 + 式shì
microphone + style
Character Notes

over the microphone/loud speaker: “Come test out this style!”

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saw [n.]
钅 + 居jū
metal + reside
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resident carpenter uses a metal saw to build a residence

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nín
you [respectful]
你nǐ + 心
you + heart
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show respect to the “you” from the heart

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yóu
oil
氵 + 由yóu
water + sprout
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liquid squeezed from a sprout

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qiū
hill
斤 + 一
axe + floor
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This is a picture of an axe with its handle buried in the ground, marking the top of an important hill.

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hán
Korea
𠦝gàn + 韦
Korea + tanned hide
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blankets or clothing made of animal furs to keep warm during cold Korean winters

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fēng
wind [n.], *windstorm
几 + 乂
*wind + sheaf
Character Notes

"Our story starts in the wheat field. It has already been harvested into sheaves and the first cold wind of the season arrives in a storm. It blows against the sheaves, but they are tied tight, so the wind has to go up and over them as it passes through the field." (Hat in the Wind)

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C

*crutches
丿 + 丨
slash + walking stick
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wěi
great
亻 + 韦wéi
persona + tanned hide
Character Notes

your persona’s godson “David the Great” is a tanner

David becomes great when he tans Goliath's hide.

*David can be transliterated 大伟 or 大卫

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kàng
combat [v.]
扌 + 亢kàng
hand + whirlwind
Character Notes

trying to catch something that is being blown around is like having combat with a whirlwind

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jiāo
sprinkle
氵 + 尧yáo
water + ceremonial guard
Character Notes

To vary the work, watering/sprinkling the flowers was assigned to this ceremonial guard.

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chì
fins
支zhī + 羽
branch + wings
Character Notes

branch of the business is importing wings and exporting fins

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Series

door
Character Notes

alternative breakdown: 丶+尸 drop + corpse/flag

as a component: “户字旁”

variant: 戶

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尸 shī corpse/flag
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