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旺: flourishing, successful, beautiful, vigorous
In times of trouble, if the king only hangs around his palace all day, it will always seem as if the world is beautiful and flourishing.
Written by velenosangue
彗: comet
A comet can break trees as easily as it can break your hands.
(two multi-branched trees on top, and a three fingered hand on the bottom)
Written by velenosangue
滋: nourishing, more & more, be luxuriant, planting, turbidity
茲: here
If you want to nourish those flowers you are planting, put water(氵) and fertilizer here.
Written by velenosangue
丙: third class, 3rd, 3rd calendar sign
柄: design, pattern, build, nature, handle, crank, grip, knob, shaft
How to make a wooden doll:
First. Cut down a tree
Second: Chop it into smaller blocks
Third: Carve them into the individual pieces, following this pattern, and put them together.
Hm... these instructions must be pretty old.
Written by velenosangue
共: together, both, neither, all, and, alike, with
洪: deluge, flood, vast
When all the water(氵) from a storm comes down together in the same place, it causes a flood.
Written by velenosangue
責: blame, condemn, censure
漬: pickling, soak, moisten, steep
Don't blame me that all our cucumbers became pickled. I didn't know that wasn't water(氵) you were soaking them in. Who soaks cucumbers in water(氵) anyways?
Written by velenosangue
旦: daybreak, dawn, morning
酔: drunk, feel sick, poisoned, elated, spellbound
If you have nine or ten cups of sake, you'll probably be drunk and feel sick the next morning.
Written by velenosangue
宥: soothe, calm, pacify
有: possess, have, exist, happen, occur, approx
I have a sombrero, and it keeps me in soothing shade during Cinco de Mayo, which is anything but calm.
Note: My reference lists 宀 as meaning "shaped crown" and "roof," so you could also remember soothe as having a roof over your head during the hot summer providing soothing coolness.
Written by velenosangue
