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*fledgling
爫 + 子
claw + child
Character Notes

Picture a mother bird holding its fledgling child in its claws.

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exaggeration
八 + 丂
eight/animal legs + 5
Character Notes

Eight is an exaggeration of 5.

His exaggeration of the size of the animal legs was 5 times their actual size.

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dàng
licentious
艹 + 汤tāng
flowers + soup
Character Notes

Picture a love potion flower soup.

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jiàn
splatter
氵 + 贱jiàn
water + cheap
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Picture a cheap water gun splattering the shooter with water.

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gěng
stalk [n]
木 + 更gèng
tree + even more
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If you want even more tree to grow, you have to protect the stalk.

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xiè
unload
午 + 止 + 卩jié
noon + footprint + stamped
Character Notes

Have you seen the classic movie Charade? Picture the criminal unloading a piece of evidence (a stamped original) at noon, at an assigned footprint.

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guàn
stork
艹 + 吅 + 隹
flowers + chatterbox + special bird
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Picture a stork with flowers on her head happily chatting to the turkey about last night’s delivery.

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guàn
jar
缶 + 雚guàn
clay pot + stork
Character Notes

Picture a jar, a modern version of a clay pot decorated with a stork.

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dié
saucer
石 + 枼yè
stone + family tree
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Picture a stone saucer that has been passed around the family tree.

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gān
abashed
尢 + 监jiān
lame + supervise
Character Notes

The lame person felt abashed that she had to be supervised.

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zhuó
scorch
火 + 勺sháo
fire + ladle
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Picture fire scorching a ladle.

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zhàng
bloated
月 + 长zhǎng
body part + grow
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Picture a body part growing as it bloats.

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lychee
艹 + 劦liè
flowers + 3 muscles
Character Notes

Lychee is a flowering tree. 力 is pronounced lì, so think: lì lì lì lychee!

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qián
submerge
氵 + 替
water + replace
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When an object is submerged, it replaces water.

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bèi
tired out
备bèi + 心
prepare + heart
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You put you heart into preparing by walking around the field, and now you are all tired out.

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yùn
pregnant
乃 + 子
only then/fist + child
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This character as a whole kind of looks like a pregnant woman's stomach holding a child.

Only when there is a child inside, then you can say someone is pregnant.

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cái
stuff [n]
木 + 才cái
tree/wood + genie
Character Notes

A toy genie made of wood stuff.

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jiàn
recommend
艹 + 存
flowers + deposit
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You recommend that the old flowers be deposited in the compost.

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xián
title
行 + 钅
boulevard + metal
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We knew him by his street title: Metal King of the Boulevard.

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