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corner 
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世
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| epoch, generation, lifetime, age
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Left: corner  , right: twenty 廿 (two connected 'ten' 十)
From the corner (= the old) it arises every twenty (years) a new generation or epoch.
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甚
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| very, extraordinary, any
shén, shèn
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Image of a grain shovel/scoop 其 (tool for threshing), bottom: angle
A grain shovel with an extra angle is very extraordinary.
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断
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| severance, to decide, break, judgment, to cut off
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From left: corner , rice 米, axe 斤
If the rice is in a corner , you can use the axe to decide whether to cut it.
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继
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to go on with, to continue, to succeed, to inherit, then
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Left: thread 纟/糸, right: angle , rice 米
As long as a thread, we will manage with the rice in the corner to go on with.
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亡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to die, deceased, to lose, to flee
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(Originally: left:. corner , in this corner character for "person" 人, which changed to "lid" 亠)
Coffin seen in a cross-sectional view as symbol for dying.
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陋
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| vulgar, low, plain, ugly, mean, ignorant
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Left: hill 阝, right: corner and Third 丙 (one 一 outside, two λ strokes inside 内 makes 3)
At the hill is a corner with three (persons) who are vulgar and mean.
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