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fǎng
spin [v.]
纟 + 方fāng
thread + compass
Character Notes

Thread spins, compass (needles) spin.

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xiān
fiber
纟 + 千qiān
thread + thousand
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Fiber made of a thousand threads.

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allocate
扌 + 发
hand + friend's hair
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You use your hand to allocate sections of your friend's hair while braiding it.

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moor [v.]
氵 + 白bái
water + white
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You can’t moor when the water is white.

You are on the water and want to moor at the white dock.

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bào
explode
火 + 暴bào
fire + violent
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When you add fire to violent feelings, things explode.

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xūn
treat with smoke
千 + 黑
thousand + black
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Treat it with a thousand hours of smoke till it is black.

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hōng
warm by a fire
火 + 共gòng
fire + together
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We all stood together to warm by the fire.

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brine
卜 + 囗 + 乂
magic wand + enclose + sheaf/X
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Picture a magic wand waving over something X enclosed in a pot to infuse X with the brine it is cooking in.

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tàng
scald
汤tāng + 火
soup + fire
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There is soup being cooked over a fire and you use it to scald the vegetables.

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dùn
simmer
火 + 屯tún
fire + stockpile
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By regularly simmering your left-over meat and vegetables over the fire, you've created a stockpile of soup stock.

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huì
braise
火 + 会huì
fire + meeting
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There was a fire in the center of the meeting where the dinner was braising.

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jiè
mustard
艹 + 介jiè
flowers + introduce
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Let me introduce you to the tiny flowers of the mustard plant.

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butter-ified
酉 + 禾
whiskey bottle + grain
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This character originally referred to the fermenting of milk and now is used to refer to food products made with butter. Sometimes butter makes things crispy, flaky, crumbly or soft, so we'll create a term to unite these various meanings: butter-ified!

A family favorite: Whole Grain Oats with Whiskey Butter.

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sick and tired of
月 + 贰
body part + II
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Picture being sick and tired of your body part having to touch greasy II-kuai bills.

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lǎo
guy
亻 + 老lǎo
persona + old man
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Picture your persona referring to a guy as an old man and getting beat up.

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jùn
lofty
山 + 夋qūn
mountain + city park
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You think fake mountains are a little lofty for a city park.

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recruit [v.]
莫mò + 力
mirage + muscle
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Picture someone creating a mirage to strong-arm someone into recruitment.

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let in
纟 + 内nèi
thread + internal
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Tying up loose ends by accepting the thread of the argument internally, let it in on the inside.

Let in a loose thread to the internal side of your sweater.

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zuǎn
chignon
算suàn + 糸
calculate + fine silk
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You calculate the number of red fine silk ribbons used to tie a chignon (hair bun).

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