菜
JLPT HSK 1

cài
Top: plant 艹, below: to pluck 采 (A hand 爫 plucks from above at a tree 木.)
Plants you can pluck from above from a 'tree', are the vegetables.

	茶
JLPT HSK 1

chá
From top: plant 艹, person 人 and a tree 木
The plant (the leafs), which are plucked by a person from a tree, is tea.

	苹
JLPT HSK 1

píng
At top: plant 艹, below: flat, equal 平 (Here: see 平 as an image of an apple tree with big top and two apples)
This plant looks like an apple tree.

	药
JLPT HSK 2

yào
Top: plant 艹, bottom: promise, treaty 约 (The thread 糹/糸 at the ladle 勺 reminds to the promise.)
This plant gives the promise to be: medicine.

	懂
JLPT HSK 2

dǒng
Left: feelings 忄, right: supervise, director 董 (To make plants 艹 heavy 重, they must be supervised/monitored.) [heavy 重 = A vehicle 車/车 with double wheels 二 is for heavy loads.]
Only if you can supervise (control) your feelings, you will understand.

	共
JLPT HSK 2

gòng
Top: plant 艹, bottom: table
Put the plants on the table: together.

	草
JLPT HSK 3

cǎo
Top: plant/grass 艹, below: early, fast 早 (When the sunrise 旦 is at the mark 丶 at the horizon 一, it is early in the morning.
The plant, that grows fast, is grass.

	花
JLPT HSK 3

huā
Top: plant 艹, bottom: change 化 (... from a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person)
A plant that changes (when blooming) is the: flower.

	满
JLPT HSK 3

mǎn
Left: water 氵, right: grass/plants 艹, pair/both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.)
Water and plants, both can make (your stomach) full.

	蓝
JLPT HSK 3

lán
Top: plant 艹, below: supervise 监 (For the cut bamboo [=knife刂 & half bamboo 竹] is a bowl 皿 for its supervision)
This plant is cut like bamboo and dyes/stains in a bowl into: blue.

	节
JLPT HSK 3

jié
Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: 卩 (This is typically a 'bent person', but here image of a node of bamboo's stem)
This grass (=bamboo 竹) has a stem with nodes, like joints.

	蕉
JLPT HSK 3

jiāo
Top: plant 艹, below: burnt 焦 (bird 隹, fire 灬 [here: image of hanging bananas])
The plant only birds can reach with the hanging fruits is: the banana.

	著
JLPT HSK 4

zhù
Top: plant 艹, below: person 者 (old man 耂 in the sun 日)
Under the plant is a person, who is an outstanding writer.

	艺
JLPT HSK 4

yì
Top: plant 艹, below: at second position 乙 (Two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.)
Plants can at the second position also be seen as art.

	落
JLPT HSK 4

là, lào, luò, luō
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 洛 (water 氵and each 各 [= Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody])
Plants (their leaves) and water-(drops), they all fall down.

	弃
JLPT HSK 4

qì
Top: 'new born baby' (Character for child 子, but turned upside down: the baby at birth comes first), bottom: grass, plant 艹 (here exceptionally not as two hands 廾)
The new born baby in the grasses is abandoned.

	苦
JLPT HSK 4

kǔ
Top: plant 艹, below: old 古 (Pictogram of a tomb stone)
Plants (or herbs) that are old, taste bitter.

	获
JLPT HSK 4

huò
Top: plant 艹, bottom: wild animal 犭(dog on the hind legs), dog 犬
(When using sticks as a trap) With plants wild animals or dogs can be caught.

	葡
JLPT HSK 4

pú
Top: plant 艹, below: 匍 (enwrap 勹, just now 甫) [= A hand for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now]
The plants that wrap something for the "just now" (not storable) are the grapes.

	萄
JLPT HSK 4

táo
Top: plant 艹, below: package 匋 (wrap 勹, can 缶 [lid and can opener 十 of that can 凵 ])
A plant where it is like "wrapped in a can" are the grapes.

	敬
JLPT HSK 5

jìng
Left: thoughtless 苟 (Using plants 艹 for wrapping 勹 a present 口 is thoughtless.) cf: sentence 句, right: strike 攵/攴 [hand 又 with a stick 卜]
When a plant speaks a sentence 句 and has a stick in the hand, it is respected.

	范
JLPT HSK 5

fàn
Here: image of the casting mold with casting channels 艹, casting material 氵 and casting model 㔾
Through the casting channels the molten material flows in the model of the casting mold.

	藏
JLPT HSK 5

cáng, zàng
Top: plant 艹, below: 臧 (fragment 爿, official 臣, halberd 戈)
The plant is the fragment that the official with the halberd is hiding away.

	营
JLPT HSK 5

yíng
From top: plant/grass 艹 (here: field camp), cover 冖 (= tent), two mouths 吕
You need plants/grass and tents for the many mouths, when: managing the noutrition of the army.

	薄
JLPT HSK 5

bó, báo, bò
Top: plant 艹, below: extensive 溥 (The water 氵 announces 尃 that it is extensively widespread) [announce 尃 = right now 甫 with a skillful hand 寸, cf. 搏])
When plants are in the water they stay right now and despite skillful hands: meager and weak.

	英
JLPT HSK 5

yīng
Top: plant 艹, below: center 央 (The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered)
The plant in the center is brave, England too.

	荣
JLPT HSK 5

róng
Top: plant 艹 (here: a lot of green), bottom: cover 冖, tree 木
If there are 'lots of green' as the cover of a tree, it is: thriving.

	苗
JLPT HSK 5

miáo
Top: plant 艹, below: field 田
(The tiny sprouts look like grass:) The 'grass' on the field are actually the seedlings.

	哎
JLPT HSK 5

āi
Left: mouth 口, right: phonetic "āi" 艾 (like AIDS 艾 滋 病)
From the mouth an "āi" as interjection of surprise "hey!"

	荐
JLPT HSK 5

jiàn
Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: exist 存 (With this talent 才 the child 子 can exist.)
Grass exists and [I recommend its use] as a straw mat.

	劳
JLPT HSK 5

láo
From above: growing plant 艹, cover 冖 (here: top layer), strength 力
(Reclaiming the land:) To transform the growing plants into a flat top layer requires strength and that: you struggle.

	蔬
JLPT HSK 5

shū
Top: gras, plant 艹, bottom: scatter, sparse 疏 (It is correct 正, that newborn babies [= child 子 upside down & amniotic fluid 川] scatter sparsely.)
The plants that are scattered are the (eatable) vegetables.

	宽
JLPT HSK 5

kuān
Top: roof 宀, below: 苋 (plant 艹, see 见/見 (An eye 目 on legs 儿 = looking around)
From the roof, the plants, which I can see are (everywhere): widely and broadly.

	荡
JLPT HSK 6

dàng
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: soup 汤 (Water 氵is turned by warming sunrays 易 into: a soup.)
(There are organic laundry detergents.) When you take plants to make a 'soup' you can use it for washing.

	蒂
JLPT HSK 6

dì
Top: plant 艹, bottom: emperor 帝 (He stands 立 and is covered 冖 with cloth 巾)
The plant has an 'imperial' part: the stem.

	茫
JLPT HSK 6

máng
Top: grass 艹, bottom: 汒 (water 氵, dead 亡 [coffin in cross section])
Either the grass (smoking) or the water will let us die, which is uncertain.

	若
JLPT HSK 6

ruò
Top: plant 艹, below: right 右 (= The hand that feeds the mouth 口)
The plant to the right seems "as if".

	蓄
JLPT HSK 6

xù
Top: plant 艹, bottom: livestock, breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 is used to raise livestock [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = 玄 = thread 玄 at which a mysterious magnet 磁 hangs]
Plants for raising livestock have to be grown & stored.

	莫
JLPT HSK 6

mò
From top: Plant 艹, sun 日, plant 艹 [not 大 "large"] - Together: The sun goes down between plants: Sunset
The sunset is perceived negatively.

	葬
JLPT HSK 6

zàng
From top: plant 艹, death 死 (If already under the earth 一 the bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕 are, this means to die.), plant 艹
Between plants the dead is buried.

	蔽
JLPT HSK 6

bì
Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: shabby, (humble) I 敝 (The cloth 巾 is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and then as shabby as I am.)
On the lawn, four bits of cloth are (spread) with the stick in the hand: As a cover.

	荒
JLPT HSK 6

huāng
Top: plant 艹, below: 巟 (dead 亡 (coffin in cross-section), river 川
The plants die and because of the river it becomes uncultivated.

	薪
JLPT HSK 6

xīn
Top: plant 艹, below: new 新 (From a standing 立 tree 木 your axe 斤 makes someting new.)
(All) plants and also standing trees are made with the axe to: firewood.

	芒
JLPT HSK 6

máng
Top: plant/grass 艹, below: death 亡
The plant for (wrapping) the dead, was the club-awn.

	茂
JLPT HSK 6

mào
Top: plant 艹, below: 戊 (halberd 戈 with additions)
Plants are cut/mowed with halberds for a luxuriant nature.

	董
JLPT HSK 6

dǒng
Top: plant 艹, below: double, heavy 重 (vehicle 車/车 with double wheels 二)
(Breeding success is labor-intensive:) To make plants heavy, they must be supervised.

	蒸
JLPT HSK 6

zhēng
From top: plant 艹, water 水 between two boundaries 二 (= a steaming pot), fire 灬
For (cooking the) plants is this water between the boundaries, when from below the fire heats: the steam.

	蒙
JLPT HSK 6

mēng, méng, měng
From top: plant 艹, cover 冖, one 一, pig 豕
Under the plants and under the cover there shall be a/one pig? You deceiver!

	蓬
JLPT HSK 6

péng
Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: to encounter 逢 (The movements of a bee 蜂 [=insect of peak of growing plant] (from blossom to blossom) mean: to encounter.)
The plant which you often encounter (because it is overgrown /disheveled) is: the fleabane.

	瞒
JLPT HSK 6

mán
Left: eye 目, right: grass/plant 艹; pair, both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.)
(Out of the sight of the) eyes, both are below/inside the grass to conceal sth.

	蔑
JLPT HSK 6

miè
From top: grass/plant 艹, eye 罒 (With the pupil ロ in the center), garrison 戍 (= The persons 人 (= ノ & 一) at the halberds 戈)
(When crossing the border illegally, you need to crawl lying flat.) If your eyes are below the grass, the garrison will neglect you, but also might despise you.

	苏
JLPT HSK 6

sū
Top: plant/grass 艹, bottom: deal with/manage 办 (When the power 力 is supported 丶 from both sides, then it is dealt with.)
(very invigorating?) This plant can manage that you are revived.

	蕴
JLPT HSK 6

yùn
Top: grass 艹, bottom: 缊 (thread 纟/糸, sun 日, bowl 皿)
The grass has fibers/threads which, when viewed in light, are the bowl for inner strength.

	茎
JLPT HSK 6

jīng
Top: plant 艹, below: vertical 圣 (A hand 又 is vertically above the ground 土.)
The plant has a vertical part, namely the: stem.

	芽
JLPT HSK 6

yá
Top: plant 艹, bottom: tusk 牙 (elephant's 象 head with a tusk ノ)
Both plants and tusks grow from a sprout.

	萎
JLPT HSK 6

wēi, wěi
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to entrust 委 (Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted.)
The plants I entrusted you, are (all) withered.

	蔓
JLPT HSK 6

mán, màn, wàn
Left: plant 艹, right: handsome 曼 (.. when the sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又)
A plant that is handsome is: the spreading turnip.

	萌
JLPT HSK 6

méng
Top: plant 艹, buttom: bright, clear 明
For a plant it is like "sun and moon", when the seed sprouts.

	苟
JLPT HSK 6

gǒu
Top: plant 艹; bottom: sentence 句 (wrapped 勹 mouth 口 [here: a present])
Using plants for wrapping a present 口 is: thoughtless and negligent.

	苍
JLPT HSK 6

cāng
Top: grass 艹, below: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse)
Grass grows on the warehouse: It is dark blue and aged.

	菌
JLPT HSK 6

jūn, jùn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 囷 (enclosure 囗, rice plant 禾)
Plants enclosed like this rice plant will be affected by mold.

	蔚
JLPT HSK 6

wèi, yù
Top: plant/grass 艹, bottom: military officer 尉 (This buttocks 尸 shows 示 his skillful hand 寸 as an officer.)
Plants that have the 'rank of an officer' are resplendent.

	潇
JLPT HSK 6

xiāo
Left: water 氵, right: mugwort 萧 (grass, plant 艹, respectful 肃 (hand writing four lines), here: Hand with stick 丨, stirring sth.)
(The broth is thin:) The water with a few grasses, which the hand stirs, appears deep and clear.

	蕾
JLPT HSK 6

lěi
Top: plant 艹, bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds.

	唠
JLPT HSK 6

láo
Left: mouth 口, right: to struggle 劳 (To transform the growing plants 艹 into a flat top layer 冖 requires strength 力 and that you struggle)
For the mouth it is a struggle to chatter.

	蔼
JLPT HSK 6

ǎi
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to visit (a superior) 谒 (words 讠of an interrogation 曷 [=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.])
(There are flowers in the interrogation room:) If there is a plant during the words of an interrogation, it is: friendly.

	藐
JLPT HSK 6

miǎo
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 貌 (hairy animal 豸 or var. of pig 豕 weiß 白, Beine 儿)
In the plant is a hairy animal, white with legs: I despise it.

	菲
JLPT no HSK

fēi
Top: grass 艹, bottom: not/denial 非 (opposing wings 羽)
Grass is often denied (= rejected) because it grows too luxuriant.

	莹
JLPT no HSK

yíng
From top: grass 艹, cover 冖, jade 玉
In the grass is covered a 'jade' with: the luster of gems.

	荫
JLPT no HSK

yìn
Top: grass 艹, bottom: moon, rearside, Yin 阴 (The hill 阝is on its "moon-side" 月 shady, thus the: Yin)
Only grass can grow at the "moon"-side of the hill: in the shade.

	葛
JLPT no HSK

gé, gě
Top: Plant/grass 艹, below: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.)
The plant with the tendrils, like the tangles in an interrogation is the: kudzu-bean.

	萍
JLPT no HSK

píng
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 泙 (water 氵, flat, equal 平)
The plant that is on the water drifting flatly is the: duckweed.

	莽
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mǎng
From top: plant 艹, dog 犬 (The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶), plant 艹
If a dog can hide in these grasses, it is thick weeds.

	莲
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lián
Top: growing plant 艹, below: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.)
The plant (which floats on the water), but is connected (to the ground) is the: lotus.

	茨
JLPT no HSK

cí
Top: plant 艹, below: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠 [yawning person], what comes next?)
When a plant is the "next" to each other [= they lie close adjacent], this is a thatched roof.

	萝
JLPT no HSK

luó
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to sift 罗 (with the net 罒 to sift until evening 夕)
The plants that need to be sift are the radish/turnip.

	茵
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yīn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: reason, cause 因 (For the fence 囗 around the tall person 大 is a reason.)
Plants have the reason (= purpose) to be used as: a mattress.

	藤
JLPT no HSK

téng
Top: plant 艹, below: 滕 (body 月, security guard 龹 (person 人 with high lifted arms 丷 and two barrier bars 二), water 水
Plants that pull themselves up on bodies, like raised arms of a security guard and need water are: the climbing vines.

	蓉
JLPT no HSK

róng
Left: plant 艹, right: appearance 容 (The houses 宀 in the valley 谷 have an appearance.)
(With the big pink blossom:) The plant for your good appearance is: The lotus.

	芳
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fāng
Top: plant 艹, below: direction, square 方
(Fragrance spread by the wind) When plants act in one direction, they are fragrant.

	萨
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sà
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: hill 阝, and produce 产 (standing 立 on the cliff 厂)
Over the plants and the hills, I am standing on a cliff: with the buddhistic enlightenment.

	菩
JLPT no HSK

pú
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit)
Under plants, he stands up and opens his mouth: Bodhisattva.

	菱
JLPT no HSK

líng
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom slowly, dawdle 夌 (Who walks over the earth 土 with legs 儿 that are crossed 夂, is dawdling.)
The plant that dawdles (when growing?) is the water-chestnut.

	荷
JLPT no HSK

hé, hè
Top: plant 艹, bottom: "what" 何? (Two persons 亻, 丁 carrying a load 口 with that bar 一
For the transport of the plants the two persons use their shoulders to carry that load.

	薛
JLPT no HSK

xuē
Top: grass 艹, bottom: anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture)
Made of plants and aggressive like torture: The wormwood (absinthe)

	苑
JLPT no HSK

yuàn
Left: plant 艹, right: 夗 (evening 夕, slumped person 㔾)
With the plants he stayed until the evening when he slumped, in the: park.

	蔡
JLPT no HSK

cài
Top: plant /grass 艹, bottom: sacrifice 祭 (The body 月/肉 is put by hand on the altar 示 as a sacrifice)
Plants are sacrificed by the family: Cai.

	莺
JLPT no HSK

yīng
Top: grass 艹, below: cover 冖 and bird 鸟/鳥
In the grass are covered these birds: the oriole or warbler.

	葱
JLPT no HSK

cōng
From top: Grass, plant 艹, 怱 (= hurry 匆 and heart 心) [hurry 匆 = When packing the suitcase, the wrapped 勹 long things ノノ (= pants) got wrinkles because I was in a hurry)]
The plant that is in a hurry (= grows quickly) and is closest to my heart is the leek.

	孽
JLPT no HSK

niè
Top: 薛 (grass 艹, anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture), bottom: child 子
In the grass, anal penetration with a child is a: crime.

	芦
JLPT no HSK

lú
Left: growing plant 艹, right: sliding door 戸
The plant (for building) a sliding door is the reed, where you can then rush through.

	莉
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lì
Top: plant 艹, bottom: profit, favorable 利 (Harvesting rice plants 禾 with a knife刂 is favorable and brings profit.)
The plant that brings profit is: jasmine.

	瑛
JLPT no HSK

yīng
Left: king/jade 王, right: brave, England 英 (The plant 艹 in the center 央 is brave.)
The jade that is 'brave' is lustrously.

	菊
JLPT no HSK

jú
From top: plant 艹, 匊 (wrap 勹, rice 米)
The plant that is first wrapped and then blossoms like the hanzi for rice 米 is: the chrysanthemum.

	蒋
JLPT no HSK

jiǎng
Top: grass 艹, bottom: commander 将 (A simple bed 丬, a hand reaching down 爫 and a skillful hand 寸: This is a commander.)
Where formerly only grass grew, he became the commander: Chiang Kai-shek

	芬
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fēn
Top: grass 艹, bottom: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces)
(The smell of freshly mown grass:) When grass is divided, it causes fragrance.

	苛
JLPT no HSK

kē
Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: possibility 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.)
If in the grass, someone (shall find) a nail only with his mouth, you are severe and pitiless to him.

	茜
JLPT no HSK

qiàn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: west 西 (sun 日 moves 儿 below horizon 一 at sunset in the west)
The plant with the red (= the afterglow at sunset at the west) is the Indian madder .

	芸
JLPT no HSK

yún
Top: plant 艹, bottom: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
A plant that spreads like a cloud (through the twisting shoots) is the rue/bean.

	苔
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tāi, tái
Top: plant 艹, bottom: platform, rack 台 (nose 厶 over the mouth 口)
The plant on platforms is the: moss.

	芯
JLPT no HSK

xīn
Plant 艹, heart 心
The plant's "heart" (= inner fibers) is its core and suitable as a wick.

	芭
JLPT no HSK

bā
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to hope 巴 (Behind the doorknob 巴 you may hope.)
The plant you are hopeing for is: The banana.

	茄
JLPT no HSK

qié
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
(There is still space in the garden) The plant, we should add is: the eggplant.

	荆
JLPT no HSK

jīng
Above: plant 艹, bottom: punishment 刑 (Who openly 开 uses his knife 刂 is punished.)
The plant, that can punish, are the thorns of the thistle.

	薇
JLPT no HSK

wēi
Top: grass 艹, bottom: tiny 微 (Go 彳 on the mountain 山 to the one 一 table 几 and smash 攵 it into tiny pieces.)
The plant that is tiny is this fern.

	莎
JLPT no HSK

shā, suō
Left: growing plant 艹, right: sand, gravel 沙 (In [unclear] water 氵is always a little 少 sand.)
A plant for sandy (grounds) is this: sedge grass.

	苇
JLPT no HSK

wěi
Top: plant 艹, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather)
The plant that is cut in a bundle (in a pair of two 二) with the knife 刀 is the: reed.

	芜
JLPT no HSK

wú
Top: plant 艹, bottom: denial 无 (Legs 儿 crossed out twice 二 as denial)
With plants and a denial: the wilderness.

	葫
JLPT no HSK

hú
Top: plant 艹, below: beard, non-Han-person 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月/肉 are the beards of the non-Han people.)
(The skin can be used as a drinking-vessel.) The plant where the 'old body' is used: The bottle-gourd.

	萧
JLPT no HSK

xiāo
Top: plant 艹, bottom: respectful 肃 (here: hand with spoon 丨 stiring a "soup")
The plant for making a "soup", is the medicine mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), used when you feel miserable.

	艾
JLPT no HSK

ài
Top: plant 艹, bottom: cross 乂
When the plants are (cut) cross-like on each other, it means "end" as in AIDS.

	蕊
JLPT no HSK

ruǐ
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 惢
The plant has its 3 hearts in the stamen.

	菇
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gū
Top: plant 艹, bottom: paternal aunt 姑 (the woman 女 who is old 古)
The plants (collected) by the old women, are the: mushrooms.

	菁
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jīng
Top: plant 艹, bottom: green, blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
A plant hat is green and young, is: luxuirant.

	躇
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chú
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: outstanding 著 (Under the plant 艹 is a person 者, who is an outstanding writer.)
When the foot (shall go) over the plants, the person is hesitating.

	茸
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róng
Top: plant 艹, bottom: ear 耳
The 'plants' at the ear are fluffy hair.

	莱
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lái
Top: growing plant 艹, bottom: to come 来 (Because of ten 十 grains of rice 米, I shall come?)
(This weed) is a plant that always comes again, it is the: 'fat hen'

	薯
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shǔ
Top: plant 艹, bottom: government office 署 (The eyes 罒 above the persons 者 are a government office.)
(Potatoes are harvested with a rake [here: 罒 net], which is used to furrow the ground.) The plant that is (harvested) with the rake of a person is the: potato.

	荧
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yíng
From above: plant 艹, cover 冖, fire 火
If plants are a cover for the fire, it appears glimmering.

	萤
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yíng
From top: plant, grass 艹, cover 冖, insect 虫
The grass covers this insect: the firefly.

	蒜
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suàn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 2x to show 示
(Think of its smell when both: eating and farting) The plant that shows twice is the garlic.

	藉
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jí, jiè
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: rely on, plow 耤 (tree 木 with many branches 丰), right: old days 昔
It is growing the plant as a tree with many branches if in old days (=before), the plow furrows 一 were done. This is by means of them.

	萃
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cuì
Top: grass, plant 艹, below: soldier, suddenly 卒 (Between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly.)
(with good camouflage) From the plants, the soldiers can suddenly come together.

	蘑
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mó
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to polish, sharpen 磨 (With hemp 麻 stones 石 can be polished.)
This plant grows at the hemp and looks like a stone: the mushroom.

	茹
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rú
Left: plant 艹, right: as such 如 (Women's 女 mouths 口 are as such.)
The plant is taken by the woman with the mouth, when: Eating.

	藩
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fān
Top: plant 艹, below: water for rinsing 潘 (water 氵, foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [= rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.)
Plants or water can be against the foreign, a fence or border.

	芝
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zhī
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 之 variant of plant (suggestion: as a zigzag path)
A plant that is also grows along paths is: sesame.

	芙
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fú
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: husband 夫 (The big 大 person with the extra-caring arms 一 is the husband.)
The plant, the husband brings, is: lotus.

	葵
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kuí
Top: plant 艹, bottom: tenth of 10 heavenly trunks 癸 (vulcano 癶, sky, heaven 天)
The plant with a flower like a volcano that grows towards the sky is: the sunflower.

	茧
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jiǎn
Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: insect 虫
At the plant (hangs) an insect in form of: a cocoon.

	茅
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máo
Top: grass 艹, bottom: spear, lance 矛
Grass as long as a spear is: reeds.

	蕃
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fán
Top: growing plant 艹, below: foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [= rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.)
Plants that are foreign (invasive species) are particularly flourishing.

	苯
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běn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
Plants are the origin of: benzol.

	荀
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xún
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 10-days period 旬 (When the sun 日 is enwrapped 勹 (by clouds), then often for a duration of 10 days)
Phonetic 旬 = xún in the family name 荀.

	蟒
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mǎng
Left: insect 虫, right: thick weeds 莽 (If a dog 犬 can hide in the grasses 艹,艹, it is thick weeds.)
The 'insect' in the thick weed, that (eats) the dog is: the python.

	蒲
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pú
Top: growing plant 艹, below: 浦 (water 氵, just now 甫 [(A hand for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now)])
The plant from the water, I just need is this: reed grass.

	芹
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qín
Top: plant 艹, bottom: axe 斤
The plant that is (harvested) with an axe is: the celery.

	荃
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quán
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: all, every 全 (The person 人 of the king 王 means all)
The plant everybody senses is: fragrant.

	茬
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chá
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to exist, (located) at 在 (The talents 才 on earth 土 exist in doing ...) [talent 才 = when the big man 大 balances on one foot.]
(New) plants can exist here: on the stubble land.

	苞
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bāo
Top: plant 艹, below: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
At the plants the 'enwrapping' are the flower calyx.

	荔
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lì
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 劦 (3x force 力)
The plant with the triple power is the: litchi.

	藻
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zǎo
Top: plant 艹, bottom: bath 澡 (in the water 氵you assemble 喿 for a bath.) [assemble 喿 = three beaks 口 of birds assembled in a tree 木]
Plants that are assembled in the water is: seaweed.

	萦
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yíng
From top: plant 艹, cover 冖, thread 糸
A plant that covers (the ground) is like a thread that is: winding around.

	藕
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ǒu
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 耦 (tree with many branches 耒), scorpion 禺 (carapace 田, insect 虫 and long legs 冂)
The plant with the many branches at the scopions is: the roots of lotus.

	蓓
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bèi
Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: (two, three ..)-fold 倍 (The persons 人 spit 咅 many-fold.)
The plant multiplies with the bud.

	荼
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tú
Top: plant 艹, bottom: excess, remain 余 (A heap is still on the altar 示, thus in excess.)
(The cattle do not eat it:) The plant that remains is: the thistle.

	蔷
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qiáng
Top: plant 艹, below: stingy 啬 (here: squeeze in 夹 [A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=2x人; cf:薔) is squeezed] and rotate 回)
(due to its thorns) The plant that squeezes-in if you rotate in it: is the wild rose.

	蘸
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zhàn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 醮 (alcohol 酉, scorched, burnt, charred 焦) [焦 = The bird 隹 is on fire 灬 to be burnt.]
A plant with alcohol will burn, even if you (only have briefly): dipped it into it.

	蔗
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zhè
Top: plant 艹, bottom: commonly, ordinary 庶 (A building 广 with various objects 廿 is in fire 灬 which commonly can happen.)
(for sweetening) The plant from which ordinary things are made: is the sugar cane.

	葆
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bǎo
Top: plant 艹, bottom: protect 保 (The person 亻builds a fence 口 over tree 木 to protect it.)
The plants are protected by a dense foliage.