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líng
age level
齿 + 令lìng
teeth + orders/alarm clock
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Losing baby teeth is a right of passage in many cultures, representing moving on to the next age level. If your baby teeth are not falling out on their own, alarm bells ring for the dentist, and he will recommend extraction.

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diǎn
canon
曲 + 一 + 八
bent + one + animal legs
Character Notes

picture a huge canon of a dictionary that has grown animal legs, a "walking dictionary"

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lóu
*bride
米 + 女
rice + woman
Character Notes

the woman who gets rice thrown on her

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tuī
push
扌 + 隹zhuī
hand + special bird
Character Notes

use hand to push a pardoned turkey out of the way

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silk
纟 + 纟
thread + thread
Character Notes

silk threads woven together into silk fabric

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wěn
stable [adj.]
禾 + 急
grain + anxious
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anxious about a stable, whole grain diet

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tōu
steal
亻 + 俞
persona + slaughterhouse
Character Notes

Your persona steals from the slaughterhouse.

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dīng
stare at
目 + 丁dīng
eye + nail
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eye shooting nails as it stares

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zài
once more
一 + 冂 + 土
one + hood + soil
Character Notes

If I have to ask you once more…pick up your hoodie from the soil!

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niú
cow
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modified component versions: 牜”牛字旁“ , ⺧ ”牛字头“

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chuí
droop
千 + 艹 + 士
thousand + flowers + soldier
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a thousand flowers droop to honor a fallen soldier

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màn
overflow [v.]
氵 + 曼màn
water + drawn out
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when a tub overflows, the water has been drawn out

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shì
room
宀 + 至zhì
house + until
Character Notes

The man insists that one room, his man cave, will not be complete until it has a replica of the crumbling Great Wall on one side.

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lǐng
collar
令lìng + 页
alarm clock + head
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alarm hidden near your head on your collar

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ruò
weak
弓 + 冫 + 弓 + 冫
bow + ice + bow + ice
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Remember, a frozen bow is a weak bow.

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lower leg
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picture of a knee cap and foot

modified as a component: ⻊“足字旁”

derivatives: 止 *footprint, 龰 *trail of footprints

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biàn
everywhere
扁biǎn + 辶
flat/doormat + road
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when the road is flat you can see everywhere;, Everywhere Is Flat: The interstate road projects started in the 1920’s and 30’s eventually will make it possible to say that in the United States, everywhere is flat.

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wán
play [v.]
王 + 元yuán
jewel + Adam&Eve
Character Notes

Since the garden provided so abundantly, Adam and Eve didn’t have much to do besides play. Here they are playing with a jewel they found.

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guì
expensive
Fkuì + 贝
purse + shells
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expensive things take a purse full of shells

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