Kanji:

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告: revelation, tell, inform, announce
造: create, make, structure, physique

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Lets not go down this road again. Just tell me what kind of structure to create and I'll make it.

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辰: sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac
宸: eaves, palace, imperial courtesy

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If your pet dragon wants a roof over it's head, we can't just build it a doghouse. It'll practically need a palace.

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辱: embarrass, humiliate, shame
辰: sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac

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The dragon was embarrassed about the measurement of its tiny tail.

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曲: bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
辰: sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac
農: agriculture, farmers

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To protect their crops, ancient farmers would play a melody on a pipe organ to calm the dragons. Music soothes the savage beast.

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振: shake, wave, wag, swing
辰: sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac

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I tried to shake the sleeping dragon. It bit off my hand. :-(

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娠: with child, pregnancy
辰: sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac

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We thought the dragon would eat the woman we put up as a virgin sacrifice, but it got her pregnant instead.

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唇: lips
辰: sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac

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Dragons have huge lips around their mouth

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員: employee, member, number, the one in charge
韻: rhyme, elegance, tone

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Members of the poetry club stand outside in the sun, showing off their rhyming skills. How elegant.

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旺: flourishing, successful, beautiful, vigorous

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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.

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彗: comet

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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)

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滋: nourishing, more & more, be luxuriant, planting, turbidity
茲: here

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If you want to nourish those flowers you are planting, put water(氵) and fertilizer here.

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丙: third class, 3rd, 3rd calendar sign
柄: design, pattern, build, nature, handle, crank, grip, knob, shaft

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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.

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共: together, both, neither, all, and, alike, with
洪: deluge, flood, vast

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When all the water(氵) from a storm comes down together in the same place, it causes a flood.

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責: blame, condemn, censure
漬: pickling, soak, moisten, steep

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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?

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旦: daybreak, dawn, morning

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At daybreak, the sun rises over the horizon.

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酔: drunk, feel sick, poisoned, elated, spellbound

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If you have nine or ten cups of sake, you'll probably be drunk and feel sick the next morning.

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宥: soothe, calm, pacify
有: possess, have, exist, happen, occur, approx

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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.

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蚊: mosquito

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If you squish a mosquito, you can probably write one or two kanji with the blood the bug sucked from you, but not a whole sentence.

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官: bureaucrat, the government
棺: coffin, casket

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In the future, trees will be so scarce that only rich bureaucrats can afford to be buried in wooden coffins.

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時: time, hour
蒔: sow (seeds)
卉: grass

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Sow your seeds and in time your grass will grow.
Notes:
The radical on the top of sow is an alternate form of grass and is used in many kanji relating to plants.

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水: water
潜: submerge, conceal, hide, lower (voice), hush
木: tree, wood

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If the water rises by the height of two tall trees, almost everything under the sun (in our town at least) will be submerged.

Notes:
-The three strokes on the left side of 潜 is an alternate form of water, but as far as I know the graphemes up top aren't actually related to the tree kanji.

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嵩: be aggravated, grow worse, grow bulky, swell

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Be aggrivated can be seen as the head of the Cyclops King, with the 亠 and 山 at the top making up a crown, a single eye below it (口) and a handlebar mustache and mouth below that (冂 and 口).

Stay away from those mountains. The cyclops king lives there and is constantly aggravated. He's a huge bulky guy and his temper grows worse every day.

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渥: kindness
至: climax, arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in
水: water

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I didn't realize it when I arrived, but my kindness would ultimately lead to one corpse in the water and another in the ground. I should have known. I'll never forgive myself.

The radical 氵 an alternate form of water.

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推: conjecture, infer, guess, suppose, support

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It's not just conjecture! You can infer from simple observation that birds don't pull things with their wings.

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旨: delicious, relish, show a liking for, purport, will, clever, expert

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I stick my spoon in the sun. It's so delicious!

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敏: cleverness, agile, alert

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If you are going to avoid every hit during a fight, you must be clever, agile, and alert.

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伏: prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes)

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When you bow, you bend down at the hips. A standing person (left side of bow) performs a similar action when petting a dog.

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朴: crude, simple, plain, docile
木: tree, wood

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I'm a simple and lazy guy, so I went shopping for christmas trees at the last minute. There were only two left. A normal looking one on the left, and a crude one on the right with only one branch left.

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衣: garment, clothes, dressing
害: harm, injury
糸: thread
素: elementary, principle, naked, uncovered
毒: poison, virus, venom, germ, harm, injury, spite

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Jacob was an elementary school principal who didn't understand the basic principles of making clothing, but did it anyways in an attempt to save money. School employees aren't known for being well paid. As he walked to work one morning, he leaned against a bush to let a biker go past, catching several threads on the plant in the process. As he stepped away, the threads were ripped from the seams and the clothes uncovered from his body, leaving him nearly naked. Only his shoes and underwear were left intact. Ultimately, this would prove to be the least harmful part of his day.

I'm referring to the upper part of this kanji (害) as harm, since it also appears in harm/injury and poison

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兄: elder brother, big brother
克: overcome, kindly, skillfully
十: ten

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I can easily and skillfully overcome my ten year old brother on halo, but I kindly let him win.

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玉: jewel, ball
妊: pregnancy

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Don't get that woman near the king. That man is so potent he'll get her pregnant just by being next to her. If that happens, I hope he'll give her gold or a nice jewelfor her troubles.

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子: child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac

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A child with no teeth opens his mouth.

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