十
JLPT HSK 1

shí

Two crossed arms (with five fingers each) means ten.

	什
JLPT HSK 1

shén, shí
Left: person 亻/人, right: ten 十
Ten persons are miscellaneous.

	午
JLPT HSK 1

wǔ

Image of the pestel (handle at the top), that hits the mortar in the middle, like: 'noon' is the middle of the day.

	真
JLPT HSK 2

zhēn
Top: ten 十, bottom: tool 具 (The eye 目 sees on the table a tool.)
The ten eyes see that the table is truely real.

	卖
JLPT HSK 2

mài
From top: ten 十, a cap 乛, leader/head 头 (= the big 大 one with protruding eyes 丶)
(together with: to buy 买, which shows that leader 头 with the cap 乛) This cap 乛 is what the leader 头 has bought 买, but for 10 十 (coins) he wants to sell 卖 it.

	妻
JLPT HSK 2

qī, qì
From top: ten 十, hand /彐, woman 女
(very hardworking) The ten-handed woman: that's my wife.

	南
JLPT HSK 3

nán
At a Japanese camping ground it is preferred (and thus more expensive) to have the entrance of the tent directed to the south
It costs ten 十 Yen ¥ to have the entrance of the tent 冂 directed towards the south.

	单
JLPT HSK 3

chán, dān, shàn
From top: coming out 丷 (here: rays or shine), sun 日, ten 十
It shines the sun in a group of ten (with nine planets, including Pluto) as the single one.

	直
JLPT HSK 3

zhí
Top: ten 十, below: eye 目 and a base line __
Ten eyes watch the base line which is straight.

	半
JLPT HSK 3

bàn
A birthday cake 二, two candles 丷 and a knife 丨
The birthday cake with two candles is cut with a knife into: half.

	叶
JLPT HSK 4

yè
Left: mouth 口 (= image of a leaf), right: was traditionally: 葉, now: 十. with: ground 一, tree trunk 丨 and roots 丨
The leaf 口 at the simplified tree stands for: leaves.

	博
JLPT HSK 4

bó
Left: ten 十, right: announce 尃 (from top: just now 甫, skillful hand 寸) [just now 甫 = A hand for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now.]
Tenfold you can make just now with skillful hands extensive gains.

	毕
JLPT HSK 4

bì
Top: compare 比 (image of sitting persons), below: ten 十
(graduation party) If you sit down in a group of ten, then after the graduation.

	针
JLPT HSK 4

zhēn
Left: metal 钅(=金 Covered in the ground 土 are 2 gold nuggets 丷), right: ten 十 (here: needle 丨 with a thread 一)
Made of metal is this needle.

	质
JLPT HSK 4

zhì
Outside: cliff 厂, inside: ten 十, shell, money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell-money)
At the cliff the ten shells have the (same) character and serve as a pawn.

	计
JLPT HSK 4

jì
Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: ten 十
The words in groups of ten shall be calculated.

	汁
JLPT HSK 4

zhī
Left: water 氵, right: ten 十 (simplified from 录 - cf. green 绿 where plant fibers 纟 are pressed by hand 彐 and green liquid 水 drips down.)
The water that drops down from the pressing hand is: juice.

	裁
JLPT HSK 5

cái
Top: ten 十, halberd 戈, bottom: clothes 衤/衣
For ten layers of clothes we use a halberd to cut it out.

	盾
JLPT HSK 5

dùn
Left: shield 厂, right: ten 十, eye 目
A shield with 10 eyes as symbol for 'shield' and to contradiction.

	华
JLPT HSK 5

huá, huà
Top: change 化 to beautiful, as at a flower 花, bottom: ten 十
The change makes it tenfold more beautiful and magnificent, like China.

	雄
JLPT HSK 5

xióng
Left: upper arm 厷 (ten 十, nose 厶), right: bird 隹
The ten-noses-bird is the male and the female 雌 is the stop-and-sit-bird.

	宏
JLPT HSK 6

hóng
Top: roof 宀, below: upper arm 厷 (here: ten 十, nose 厶)
If under the roof, there are ten noses, it is magnificent.

	卓
JLPT HSK 6

zhuó
Top: divination 卜/占 (crack 卜 in the shell of a turtle used for divination), below: early/fast 早
[before the day happens:] A divination at the early morning is: excellent.

	贼
JLPT HSK 6

zéi
Left: money 贝/貝, right: military 戎 (Ten 十 halberds 戈 for the military.)
Whoever takes money by force (=military-like) is a thief.

	卑
JLPT HSK 6

bēi
From top: accent ノ, field 田 (unclean drawn), ten 十
I emphasise ノ that an unclean field is tenfold vulgar.

	哗
JLPT HSK 6

huā, huá
Left: mouth 口, right: magnificent, flowery 华 (The change 化 makes it tenfold 十 as magnificent)
It comes out of the mouth "magnificently", this: clamor.

	协
JLPT HSK 6

xié
Left: ten 十, right: deal with/manage 办 (simplified from 協 =3x force, so the lateral strokes 丶 are further forces)
We have ten times three forces: to assist.

	鄙
JLPT HSK 6

bǐ
Left: 啚 (mouth 口, ten 十, revolve, return 回), right: village⻏
The mouth is ten times revolved in the village and this appears: rustic and mean.

	绒
JLPT HSK 6

róng
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: military 戎 (... with the 十 [men] with halberds 戈)
The threads (= uniforms) at the military are woolen.

	嗦
JLPT HSK 6

suō
Left: mouth 口, right: 索 (ten 十, cover 冖, thread 糸)
The mouth can cover 冖 from above (tenfold??) and it appears thread-like (when using a drinking-straw?) to suck.

	循
JLPT HSK 6

xún
Left: go 彳, right: shield 盾 (A shield 厂 with 10 十 eyes 目 as symbol for 'shield' and to contradiction.)
When you go with your shield (= your troups): you follow.

	悖
JLPT no HSK

bèi
Left: feelings 忄, right: comet 孛 (It crosses 十 the orbits of the planets in the firmament 冖 and is (big as a) child 子)
(It does not follow a planetary orbit:) The feeling with a comet that it: goes against.

	戎
JLPT no HSK

róng
Left: ten 十, right: halberd 戈 [cf. garrison 戍 = a person 人 with a halberd 戈]
The ten (men) with halberds are at the: military.

	遁
JLPT no HSK

dùn
Left: movement 辶, right: shield 盾 (A shield 厂 with 10 十 eyes 目 as symbol for 'shield' and to contradiction.)
Who uses a shield at the movement, whats to evade (the fight) and flee.

	卒
JLPT no HSK

cù, zú
From top: rotary disc 亠, two persons 人, rotary disc 十
Between two rotary discs persons are squeezed who are soldiers, who die suddenly.

	桦
JLPT no HSK

huà
Left: tree 木, right: magnificent, flowery 华 (The change 化 makes it tenfold 十 as magnificent)
(The bark and sap are usable:) The tree that is magnificent is the birch.