allograph (different shape but same meaning)
connotation as a character part
abbreviated, abbreviation
contracted, contraction
extended meaning
government
kanji, ideograph, character
literal translation from the Shuowen Jiezi
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mijn hanzi, modification
opposite meaning or situation
when used as a character part
explanation according to Richard Sears (http://hanziyuan.net/)
one of the 214 radicals in the traditional character classification system
situation chosen for evoking this meaning
suffix for counting units of objects, etc.
Unclassified by Joseph De Roo.
舌舌RS | | tongue, clapper of bell, rad. 135 | - tongue sticking out of the mouth → → 舌; lit. the tongue invades 干 the mouth 口
| 活 括 辞 乱 憩 話 |
和和RS | 咊咼啝惒盉私 訸鉌龢𤧗𥤉𧇮 | harmony, peace, peaceful, calm | - countryside: where one can eat 口 one's rice 禾 in peace and harmony
| 靖 康 寧 安 幽 泰 静 妥 穏 鎮 尉; 邦; 軟 柔
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香香RS | 𥞌𩠼𩡄𩡠𪏰𪏽 | fragrant, sweet smelling, incense | - RS. nice food 禾 reduced to in the mouth 甘: 𥞌 → 香: fragrant
- beehive 日 in a tree禾: honey is sweet smelling, fragrant, appetizing
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稽稽RS | | examine, investigate, delay, think, consider, bow to the ground | - purposefully 旨 bow to the ground like the grain 禾 or like a dog 尤: examine what's on the ground and think about it
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看看RS X | | watch, see | - hand 龵 shading the eyes 目
| 視 観 覧 見 眺
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看看RS | | look, see, examine, scrutinize | - RS. hand 龵 shading the eyes 目 to see
| 視 観 覧 見 眺 |
無無RS 无无 | | negative, no, not; lack, have no | - RS. dancer holding both tails in his hands → 無 → 无: his tails or not touching the ground; fire 灬 under a bale of straw: nothing is left after it is burned
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繁繁RS | | complicated, complex, difficult, luxuriant, ovegrown | - RS. hand 攵 separating the many hairs of a woman 每 like string 糸: complex
| 敏 |
卸卸RS X | | sell wholesale, wholesale trade | - put down a big load of goods in a retail store; image: officials 卩 who stop working at noon and put down the big load of their job
| 売; 御
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卸卸RS | | lay down, retire from office, wholesale | - salesperson (using seals 卩) stops 止 his work at noon 午 to rest
- man stops 止 and kneels 卩 to unload horse 午: wholesale trade cargo
| 売; 御 |
第第RS | | sequence, number, grade, degree | - order of the mourned 弔 people carved 丿 on bamboo ⺮ scrolls
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節節RS 节节 | | knot, node, joint, section, seasons, passage, paragraph, section, beats (music), rhythm, time | - quick 即 beating with bamboo 竹 stick defining the rhythm at which a passage from a sutra should be read turning the tongues of the reciters in a knot
- ⓢ shuttle 龴 going back and forth weaving cotton 艹 in a steady rhythm
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筋筋RS | | muscles, tendons | - arms and flesh 肋 looking like bamboo 竹
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毎毎RS X | | every, each | - every person 𠂉 has a mother 毋; polygamous society: 嫡
| 各; 皆; 海 悔 梅 侮 敏
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等等RS | | rank, grade, wait, equal, 'etc.' | - tho bamboo 竹 scrolls in the temple 寺 order everything according to rank, grade
- a bamboo ⺮ temple 寺 waits to equal a marble temple in rank
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符符RS | | token, sign, symbol, mark, tally, charm, match | - given 付 small 寸 piece of bamboo 竹 with a person's 亻 name on it
- CJKV. A bamboo 付 slip 寸 on which a contract is written and then broken in two so that the two matching halves can be held by the two parties involved.
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簿簿RS | | register, account book, notebook | - big 溥 register made of bamboo strips 竹
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筒筒RS | | tube, pipe, cylinder, thick piece of bamboo | - piece of bamboo 竹 round like all mouths 同 and having the same 同 diameter everywhere
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矯矯RS 矫矫 | | correct, rectify, straighten out, brave | - brave arrow 矢 shot from a high 喬/乔 position to rectify a military situation
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篤篤RS 笃笃 | | deep, true, sincere, genuine, dangerous | - sitting on a horse 馬 running through a bamboo bush 竹 can be dangerous and a truely deep experience
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