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mortar 臼
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插
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to insert, stick in, pierce, interfere, interpose
chā Left: hand 扌, right: 臿 (pestle 千 in mortar 臼 [=it is pressed from both sides E,彐 ])
By hand put the pestle into the mortar: by inserting. |
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千
臼
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鼠
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mouse, rat
shǔ Top: mortar 臼, below: image of a mouse with legs レ and tail し
(Because of grain residues) It is at the mortar & looks like a mouse: The mouse! |
臼
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舅
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maternal uncle
jiù Top: 臼 (like two hands: E,ヨ), bottom: man 男 (In the rice field 田 is the strength 力 male.)
Two [protecting] hands has this man: The maternal oncle. |
臼
男
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毁
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to destroy (by fire), to damage, to defame, slander
huǐ Left: mortar: 臼 (here: destroyed sun 日), work(er) 工, right: 殳 (battle axe  in a hand 又)
The sunlike container was taken by the worker with the battle axe in the hand and destroyed. |
臼
工
殳
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舆
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carriage, sedan chair, public/world
yú Outside: mortar 臼 (= two hands E,ヨ pressing from the sides), inside: vehicle 车/車, below: two hands 廾 (= twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined)
The vehicle that requires four hands is the sedan chair. |
臼
车
廾
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稻
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rice (Oraza sativa), paddy
dào Left: rice plant 禾, right: 舀 (hand reaching down 爫, mortar 臼)
It comes from the rice plant and the hand puts it (for processing) into the mortar: The rice. |
禾
舀
爫
臼
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蹈
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to tread on, to trample, dance, to stamp, to fulfill
dǎo Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: 舀 (hand reaching down 爫, mortar 臼)
(At the grape-stomping) With the feet from above into the mortar: to tread in. |
足
舀
爫
臼
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馅
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stuffing, filling, force-meat
xiàn Left: food 饣/食, right: pitfall 臽 (falling person ⺈ over a pit trap 臼 [= mortar])
The food that is pressed into a "pitfall", is the stuffing. |
食
臽
臼
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阎
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gate to a lane / community
yán Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: pitfall 臽 (falling person ⺈ over a pit trap 臼, but here: 臼 as a lane with houses on both sides E 彐)
Through this gate the person comes to the residential street: The entrance gate. |
门
臽
臼
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倪
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feeble, tiny, young and weak
ní Left: person 亻, right: fragment, child 兒/儿 (simplified to 儿, with mortar 臼 and legs 儿)
The person, who is like a 'child' is: feeble. |
亻
兒
臼
儿
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霓
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secondary rainbow
ní Top: rain 雨, bottom: fragment, child 兒/儿 (typically simplified to 儿, as a mortar 臼 and legs 儿)
At rain the rainbow 虹 has a child: the secondary. |
雨
兒
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儿
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谀
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to flatter
yú Left: word 讠(=言), right: 臾 (mortar 臼 [= two hands E, 彐] and person 人)
Words that encompass the person like a mortar (=made of two hands) want to: flatter. |
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臼
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