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Chinese - Ch 04
Chinese Characters from the book by Heisig & Richardson
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Language - Chinese
Beginner
10/06/2024

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Term
51) 只
Definition
  • Zhi
  • only
  • an ultimate predator only has a mouth and legs
Term
52) 贝
Definition
  • Bei
  • shell / shellfish
  • a freakish creature with a gigantic eye and two legs
Term
53) 贴
Definition
  • Tie
  • PASTE/ stick
  • a shellfish wants to seize and paste another shell
Term
54) 贞
Definition
  • Zhen
  • chaste
  • a shellfish with a divining rod is looking for a chaste sexual partner
  • a chaste shellfish is conceived magically 
Term
55) 员
Definition
  • Yuan
  • member / person(nel)
  • if a shellfish wants to become a member of clams, it must remove all his teeth from its mouth
Term
56) 儿
Definition
  • Er
  • child / son / YOUNGSTER / youth
  • "all legs" and no brain
Term
57) 几
Definition
  • Ji
  • how many / (small) table
  • how many children can sit on a small table
Term
58) 见
Definition
  • Jian
  • see
  • a person with a large prominent eye highlighting the act of seeing  
Term
59) 元
Definition
  • Kai
  • beginning, origin
  • at the very beginning, according to Bible, two youngsters were the origin of all people
Term
60) 页
Definition
  • Ye
  • page
  • every page has its stand for a page number
  • a bookmark for a page
Term
61) 顽
Definition
  • Wan
  • stubborn
  • a blockhead is stubborn from the very beginning 
  • the origin of stubborness can be traced back to the caveman blockheads 
Term
62) 凡
Definition
  • Fan
  • all / every / whatever / whatsoever / ordinary
  • no matter how many ordinary small tables one looks at, every one of them looks almost the same
Term
63) 肌
Definition
  • Ji
  • muscle
  • by putting arms on a small table, two 'fleshes' will test their muscles;
  • how many pushups one needs to transform flesh into muscle
Term
64) 负
Definition
  • Fu
  • to owe; bear; to beard debt; negative
  • a man with a running money is indeed owes many shells
Term
65) 万
Definition
  • Wan
  • ten thousand
  • a very stupid character with no connection either with ten 十 or thousand 千
  • it looks like a gun from computer games which can easily shoot 10.000 bullets
Term
66) 匀
Definition
  • Yun
  • uniform; even; evenly
  • to put in a bag all the uniformly shaped sticks  
Term
67) 句
Definition
  • jusi
  • sentence
  • the words from a mouth are all bound up neatly in a sentence

 

Term

68) 旬

xun

Definition
  • Xun
  • ten days (sometimes years)
  • a sun is moving through an enclosed period of 10-days 
Term

69) 勺

 

Definition
  • Shao
  • ladle, spoon
  • a single drop has been left in a ladle - something which we need if we want to bind up drops of anything
Term
70) 的
Definition
  • de
  • bullseye - the centre of the target
  • bull's eye is painted with white circles on an old ladle  
Term
71) 首
Definition
  • Shou
  • head / leader / chief
  • a robot head with a nose above the eye and bellow the antennas 
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