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Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 1
to have, there is, there are, to exist, to be
yǒu
Top left: hand / (The fingers are left and at the right the forearm.), below: body /
I have a hand and a body: I'm existing!

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JLPT HSK 1
friend
yǒu
Comprises twice a radical for hand: , as shaking hands
They shake hands because they are friends.

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JLPT HSK 2
affair, matter, thing, item, work
shì
From top: ten , mouth , hand /
Keep ten mouths shut with one hand: what an affair!

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JLPT HSK 2
left, unorthodox
zuǒ
Left: hand /, right: build, work (image of a carpenter's square)
The hand that assists, (=supports with the carpenter's square) is the left.

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JLPT HSK 2
right side, on the right
yòu
Top: hand /, below: mouth
The hand for the mouth (= You eat with it.), is your right.

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JLPT HSK 2
snow, snowfall
xuě
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: hand
Rain that you can hold in your hand is: snow.

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JLPT HSK 2
wife, to marry off (a daughter)
qī, qì
From top: ten , hand /, woman
(very hardworking) The ten-handed woman: that's my wife.

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JLPT HSK 3
urgent, pressing, rapid, hurried

From top: inflected person ⺈, hand /, heart
The inflected person holds the hand to the heart, because he was in an urgent hurry. (and now is exhausted)

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JLPT HSK 3
to act as, match equally, suitable, adequate
dāng, dàng
Top: small , bottom: hand /
Even a small hand acts as such.

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JLPT HSK 4
dispute, to strive for, to argue or debate
zhēng
Top: bent person ⺈, below: hand /, stick
The bent person with a stick in his hand is looking for a dispute.

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JLPT HSK 4
father

A hand with a stick
The father has a stick in his hand (for punishing).

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JLPT HSK 4
sugar, sweets, candy
táng
Left: rice , right: Tang dynasty (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
You use rice in a building to squeeze it with a pestle in a hand and a mortar to get: sugar.
广
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JLPT HSK 5
diary, record, to hit, to copy

Top: hand , bottom: liquid (Compare with: green 绿 where a hand / squeezes fiber 纟 and green liquid drops down.)
When the hand squeezes out a liquid this means: 'diary' or 'keeping records'.

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JLPT HSK 5
married woman

Left: woman , right: hand / (traditional: 婦 with a broom in the hand)
The woman who gave her hand, is a married woman.

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JLPT HSK 5
to go back, to return, to resign, conclude
guī
Left: knife , right: hand /; simplified from 帰 or 歸. Showed originally a man with a sword who returns to his wife (=hand with broom)
When the man with a sword is at his wife (today: hand without broom) he has returned.

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JLPT HSK 5
spirit, departed soul, quick, alert, efficacious, effective
líng
Top: hand /, below: fire
Just as the hand cannot grasp fire, it is with the spirit.

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JLPT HSK 5
intelligent, wisdom, knowledge
huì
Top: comet (It does not fall into your hands /: The comet), bottom: heart
If you make double wings from inverted wings with your hands and you have a heart, you are intelligent.

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JLPT HSK 5
to search, to look for, to seek
xún
Top: hand /, below: skillful hand
Use both hands for searching.

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JLPT HSK 5
file, shelve, official records, grade (of goods)
dàng
Left: tree , right: act as (Also a small hand / acts as such.)
A tree can also act as a file or shelve.

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JLPT HSK 5
cloth, to declare, to announce

Left: hand , right: cloth
The hand is holding a cloth.

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JLPT HSK 5
keep off, to resist, obstruct hinder, to block
dǎng, dàng
Left: hand , right: (=small hand /)
With a hand, a small hand is kept off.

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JLPT HSK 5
modest, humble
qiān
Left: word /, right: twice, combined (a hand holding two rice plants )
His words about the (many) rice plants in his hand, were modest and humble.

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JLPT HSK 5
dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool
táng
Left: earth , right: Tang dynasty (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
If by earth a "building" is made by hand as a surrounding mouth, it is a: dyke (embarkment) for a pond.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
ordinary, to use (often negative)
yōng
Outside: building 广, below: hand , holding a pestle , combined with use
When in a building a hand uses a pestle, it is very ordinary.
广
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JLPT HSK 6
concealed, secret, hidden, crypto-...
yǐn
Left: hill , right: urgent/hurry (The bent person ⺈ holds hand / to heart , because he was in hurry (and now is exhausted)
He used the hill, for urgently hiding and concealing it.

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JLPT HSK 6
to exaggerate, empty, in vain, Tang-Dynasty
táng
Outside: building 广, below: hand 肀, with pestle , mortar
Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar were exaggerated in Tang China???
广
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JLPT HSK 6
sad, mournful, ice-cold frigid, dismal, grim, bleak

Left: ice , right: wife (The ten -handed woman is my [hardworking] wife.)
My ice-cold wife makes me: sad.

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JLPT HSK 6
to immerse, to soak, to steep, gradually
jìn
Left: water , right: var. of a hand holding a broom
The water in the broom gets soaked up.

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JLPT no HSK
to grasp, to hold, to maintain
bǐng
Rice plant and hand
The rice plant has (by the hand) been grasped.

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JLPT no HSK
to administer, to oversee, to run, magistrate (old)
yǐn
Hand or with stick
With a stick in your hand, you: administer.
丿
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JLPT no HSK
age, 7th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 十天干
gēng
Left: building 广, right: hand , person
In the building, a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age.
广
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JLPT no HSK
he, she, abbr. for Iraq or Iran

Left: person , right: to administer, rule (.. with a stick in the hand you administer)
The person with the stick in his hand point to him/her.

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JLPT no HSK
comet
huì
Top: vari. of not (shows opposite wings ), bottom: hand /
It does not fall into your hands: The comet.

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JLPT no HSK
persist, continue (as a song)
gēng
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems (In the building 广 a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age), bottom: money /貝
If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue)
广
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