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sháo
ladle
勹bāo + 丶
bound up + drop
Character Notes

a ladle binds up drops

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flee
兔 + 辶
rabbit + road
Character Notes

Flee, Rabbit: To supplement meager incomes, people are hunting rabbits and raising rabbits. A small boy, knowing his pet will become dinner one day, opens its cage and tells it to flee.

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rapid
疒 + 矢
sickness + dart
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rapid increase of movement in Max Dart’s bowels

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bat [n.]
虫 + 畐fú
insect + rich man
Character Notes

bats eat insects and symbolize wealth

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cài
vegetable
艹 + 采cǎi
flowers + pick
Character Notes

pick off the flowers when you eat the vegetable

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dàn
egg
疋 + 虫
Spartan Race + insect
Character Notes

get enough protein (eggs & insects) before a Spartan Race

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shǔ
summer heat
日 + 者
sun + hero
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hero endures "the summer of all sun"

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jìng
compete
立 + 兄
stand up + teenager
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Teenagers often try to stand out through competition. Think of one you know.

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竟jìng unexpectedly

shū
dissimilar
歹 + 朱zhū
carcass + vermilion
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The tempting tree brings knowledge of good and evil, but also contains life and death. This tree of contrasts is represented in this character meaning “dissimilar”, death on the left and tempting life on the right.

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chī
eat
口 + 乞qǐ
mouth + beg
Character Notes

beggars need to eat

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tóu
head [n.], *bust
冫 + 大
ice + large dog
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two hairs coming off the head of a large dog

a frozen bust of a large dog

a large person with two arrows pointing at her head

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页yè page/head

lún
*lifeguard
𠆢 + 匕
umbrella + person sitting
Character Notes

"ideogram"

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sōu
search [v.]
扌 + 叟sǒu
hand + skeleton
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A hand is searching around in the dark and finds a skeleton.

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chǎng
factory, *cliff
Character Notes

as a component: “厂字旁” or “厂字头” or “偏厂“

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广 guǎng *cave

wén
hear-smell
门mén + 耳
gate + ear
Character Notes

hear-smell foul news

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ne
[grammar particle]
口 + 尼ní
mouth + nun
Character Notes

starting sound of nun

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chú
kitchen
厂 + 豆 + 寸
cliff + beans + thumb
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cliff dwellers store their beans in the kitchen, decorated with thumbprint paintings

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wēi
tiny
彳 + 山 + 一 + 几 + 攵
queue + mountain + one/ceiling + wind + taskmaster
Character Notes

Hunger Games: the tiny people line up for a chance to feel the mountain wind but a taskmaster turns them away

The tiny scene he is watching is put in motion by the wind. Tiny ants have lined up in a queue, and he is ordering them to march up a mountain of sand, but it is really the wind who is taskmaster, blowing them up and over the hill. (Hat in the Wind)

Taskmaster has thought of everything! There will be a tiny display on top of the mountain of a wedding cake. Tiny figurines: the wedding queue (you, the groom and all your attendants) with a hidden fan that will blow one puff of wind every 15 seconds to rustle your tiny veil.” (Wedding Planner)

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Y

*RMB
丷+干
horns + clothesline
Character Notes

alternatively: 丷+干 horns + clothesline, devilish laundered money

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