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[[很]]
==== 很 (hen3, very)

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Mnemonic: **stepping** (<<彳>>) on a tree **root** (<<艮>>) is a **very** bad idea, it might be a tree spirit that gets angry and eats you!
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[[火]]
==== 火 (huo3, fire)

Short forms: 灬

Characters:

* <<炎>>

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[[几]]
==== 几 (ji3, side table)

Characters:

* <<殳>>

[[交]]
==== 交 (jiao1, exchange student)

Mnemonic: we measured **six** <<六>> American **exchange students** <<交>> on a **balance** <<乂>> to see which one was heaviest. Idea comes from 交流 (exchange student).

Words:

* <<性交>.

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[[巾]]
==== 巾 (jin1, towel)

Mnemonic: person carrying bath towel over shoulders.

Characters:

* <<巿>>

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* <<禁>>
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[[禁]]
==== 禁 (jin4, forbid)
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Mnemonic: the **spirit** <<示>> of the **woods** <<林>> **forbids** <<禁>> burning trees!

Words:

* <<禁止>>
* <<禁运>>
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[[口]]
==== 口 (kou3, mouth)

Chars:

* <<台>>
* <<和>>
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* <<品>>
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[[里]]
==== 里 (li3, mile)

Mnemonic: his **field** (<<田>>) streched over one **mile** (<<里>>), but it consisted of barren **soil** (<<土>>) without any plants

Characters:

* <<重>>
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* <<理>>

[[理]]
==== 理 (li3, science)

Mnemonic: the **king** (<<王>>) Louis XIV was a big patron of the mectric system, which intends to improve **science** by removing useless units like the **mile** (<<里>>)

Words:

* <<物理>>
* <<理论>>
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[[力]]
==== 力 (li4, superpower)

Characters:

* <<动>>

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[[列]]
==== 列 (lie4, list)
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Mnemonic: there must exist a **list** of **supervillains** (<<歹>>) with **knives** (<<刀>>) on the web? A knife-yielding supervillain **list**! https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/
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Words:
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* <<列表>>
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[[林]]
==== 林 (lin2, woods)

Mnemonic: there are lots of **trees** <<木>> in the **woods** <<林>>

Characters:

* <<禁>>

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[[临]]
==== 临 (lin2, temporary)

Mnemonic: the simplified character was completely mutilated into a bunch of senseless traces unmemorizable traces. The traditional 臨 can be broken into: the **Prime minister** (<<臣>>) temporarily decided to increase production of an important **product** (<<品>>): **pistols** (<<top-part-of-每>>), until the zombie apocalypse would be over.

Words:

* <<临时>>

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[[仑]]
==== 仑 (lun2, logic)

Mnemonic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory[spoon theory] is very logical and explains how using **spoons** (<<匕>>) is a good metaphor for a **person**'s (<<人>>) energy consumption

Characters:

* <<论>>

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[[论]]
==== 论 (lun4, rationale)

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Mnemonic: "**rationale**" the fancy way that engineers **say** (<<言>>) "**logic**" (<<仑>>)
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Words:

* <<理论>>

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[[轮]]
==== 轮 (lun4, wheel)
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Mnemonic: it is pretty **logical** (<<仑>>) that a **car** (<<车>>) needs **wheels**
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* 法轮功: <<falun-gong>>
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[[没]]
==== 没 (mei2, not have)

Mnemonic: if you **do not have** any **water** (<<水>>) for your **coffee** (<<殳>>), it won't be very good

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[[冖]]
==== 冖 (mi4, hajib [Muslim female head scarf])

Notes: the Wikipedia Kangxi is "cloth cover". Ciro guesses this was originally something to do with food covering. But let's just go with hajib which will allow for easy politically incorrect mnemonics. "Crown" from <<冠>> would also be another good one, but we had already used crown for <<龶>>.

Characters:

* <<冠>>

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[[宀]]
==== 宀 (mian2, roof)

Characters:

* <<审>>

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==== 木 (mu4, wood, tree)
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* <<林>>
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[[疒]]
==== 疒 (ne4, sick)

Mnemonic: Kangxi 104.

Characters:

* <<疫>>

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[[你]]
==== 你 (ni3, thou)

Mnemonic: **person** (<<人>>) **you** (<<尔>>)

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[[牛]]
==== 牛 (niu2, cow)

Short forms: 牜,⺧

Characters:

* <<理>>

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[[爬]]
==== 爬 (pa2, climb)

Mnemonic: you need **claws** (<<爪>>) to **climb** (爬) **Brazil**'s (<<巴>>) tallest mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_da_Neblina[Pico da Neblina]
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Words:

* <<爬行>>

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[[品]]
==== 品 (pin3, product)

Mnemonic: you need a lot of food **products** to feed the three **mouths** (<<口>>) of three children!

Words:

* 食品 TODO

Characters:

* <<临>>

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[[攴]]
==== 攴 (pu1, to tap)

Short forms: 攵

Mnemonic: to transform a frog into a princess, you have to **tap** your **magic wand** (<<卜>>) **again and again** (<<又>>) on it

Characters:

* <<政>>

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[[千]]
==== 千 (qian2, thousand)

Mnemonic: a super powerful <<十>> with an extra trace

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Notes: careful to not confuse with <<干>> which has a straight top.
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Characters:

* <<重>>

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[[丬]]
==== 丬 (qiang2, split wood)

Characters: <<状>>

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[[青]]
==== 青 (qing1, blue)

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Mnemonic: the **crown** (<<龶>>) of the king was **blue** and **moon-shaped** (<<月>>) 

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Notes: it is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan[green-blue/Cyan], see also https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/青色 but let's call it blue because it will be used in many constructs.

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Characters:

* <<清>>
* <<情>>

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Words:

* <<青铜>>

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[[清]]
==== 清 (qing1, clear)

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Mnemonic: imagine a Caribbean sea **water** (<<水>>) was is **blue** (<<青>>) and **clear**
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Notes: clear in the sense of "not dirty" and "a clear explanation". "Clear colors" use TODO 浅 as in 浅蓝.
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[[情]]
==== 情 (qing2, lust)

Mnemonic: in his **heart** (<<心>>), the greatest **lust** was that of **blue** (<<青>>) underwear

Words:

* <<疫情>>

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[[犬]]
==== 犬 (quan3, dog)

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Mnemonic: imagine one **big** (<<大>>) **dog** wagging its tail, the extra dot is the tail
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Short forms: 犭

Characters:

* <<状>>

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[[人]]
==== 人 (ren2, person)

Short forms: 亻
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Characters:

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* <<仑>>

Words:

* <<歹人>>
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Sentences:

* <<肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人>>

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[[日]]
==== 日 (ri4, sun)

Characters:

* <<旦>>
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* <<白>>
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[[肉]]
==== 肉 (rou4, meat)

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[[勺]]
==== 勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)

Mnemonic: it is something that you would put inside **plastic wrap** (<<勹>>)

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Notes: this is one of the main words for spoon, but that mnemonic is already taken by the Kangxi <<匕>>, so we had to go for something else.
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Characters:

* <<的>>

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[[申]]
==== 申 (shen1, God)

Mnemonic: TODO

Characters:

* <<神>>

[[神]]
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==== 神 (shen2, The Greek Gods)
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Mnemonic: **God** <<申>> **spirit** (<<示>>)

[[审]]
==== 审 (shen3, inspect)

Mnemonic: if you are going to **inspect** what's making those noises on the **roof** (<<宀>>), you will certainly find that it was **God** (<<申>>)
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[[生]]
==== 生 (sheng1, be born, birth)

Mnemonic: as soon as the prince **was born** <<生>>, only **one** (<<一>>) **crown** <<龶>> was put on his head, not two as expected since he was the child of the rulers of kingdoms

Words:

* <<生存>>

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[[十]]
==== 十 (shi2, ten)

Characters:

* <<单>>
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[[时]]
==== 时 (shi2, time)

Mnemonic: if the **sun** (<<日>>) moves an **inch** (<<寸>>) in the sky, then that means that 1 minute of **time** has passed

Words:

* <<临时>>

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[[使]]
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==== 使 (shi3, TODO)
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Mnemonic: TODO <<人>> 吏

Translations:

* make someone become some way
** <<what-doesn-t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger>>
*** here we see the common pattern "使 someone 更 something" meaning: "make someone become more something"

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[[示]]
==== 示 (shi4, spirit)

Short forms: 礻

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Mnemonic: imagine **two** <<二>> **small** <<小>> child **spirits** playing with one another, maybe they died during a nuclear explosion and never noticed what happened

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Characters:

* <<神>>

[[水]]
==== 水 (shui3, water)

Short forms: 氵,氺

Chars:

* <<治>>

[[厶]]
==== 厶 (si1, private)

Chars:

* <<台>>
* <<私>>
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* <<云>>

[[私]]
==== 私 (si1, privacy)

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Mnemonic: **privacy** is all about storing your precious **grain** (<<禾>>) in a **private** (<<厶>>) location
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[[殳]]
==== 殳 (shu1, coffee)

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Mnemonic: his **coffee** keeps falling from the **side table** (<<几>>) on the floor **again** (<<又>>) and again 
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Characters:

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* <<没>>
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* <<疫>>

Note: this shows what a 殳 weapon actually was: http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-2023-1.html

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Sentences:

* <<青铜兵器之殳简介>>

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==== 树 (shu4, trees)

Mnemonic: it is **correct** (<<对>>) to say that **trees** (树) are made out of of **wood** (<<木>>)

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[[讨]]
==== 讨 (tao3, discuss)

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Mnemonic: in their **discussions** (<<讨论>>), they always **talked** (<<言>>) about how his penis was only one **inch** <<寸>> long
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Words:

* <<讨论>>

[[台]]
==== 台 (tai2, platform)

Mnemonic: he was doing something **private** (<<厶>>) to her with his **mouth** (<<口>>) on the train **platform**

Characters:

* <<治>>

Words:

* <<台湾>>

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[[田]]
==== 田 (tian1, field)

Characters:

* <<单>>

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[[体]]
==== 体 (ti3, body)

Mnemonic: the Irish **people** <<人>> eat so much **potato** (<<本>>) that 90% of their **bodies** are made out of potato molecules

Words:

* <<体重>>

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[[土]]
==== 土 (tu3, soil)

Notes: the normal Kangxi translation is "earth", but we are afraid that this could be ambiguous with the "Planet Earth", so choosing soil instead

Characters:

* <<幸>>

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[[亠]]
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==== 亠 (tou2, pan lid)
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Characters:

* <<言>>
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* <<六>>
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[[王]]
==== 王 (wang2, king)

Characters:

* <<龶>>

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[[勿]]
==== 勿 (wu4, atom)

Mnemonic: atoms are part of **matter** <<物>>

[[物]]
==== 物 (wu4, matter [Physics])

Mnemonic: **cows** (<<牛>>) are made of **atoms** (<<勿>>), both of which are made of **matter**

Words:

* <<物理>>

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[[夕]]
==== 夕 (xi1, evening)
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[[小]]
==== 小 (xiao3, small)

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Short forms: ⺌,⺍

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Characters:

* <<尔>>
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* <<示>>
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[[心]]
==== 心 (xin1, heart)

Short forms: 忄,⺗

Mnemonic: Kangxi 42.

Characters:

* <<情>>

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[[幸]]
==== 幸 (xing4, luck)

Mnemonic: you will have much better **luck** cycling when the **soil** (<<土>>) is **dry** (<<干>>)

Words:

* <<不幸>>
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* <<幸运>>
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* <<幸存>>
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[[性]]
==== 性 (xing4, sex)

Mnemonic: to **give birth** <<生>> to a **person** <<人>> you must first have **sex** <<性>>

Words:

* <<性交>>

Translations:

* suffix randomly added after adjective
** <<临时性团队的组建和管理>>
*** here for example, 性 modifies <<临时>>, literally "a group group (团队) of temporary nature"

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[[言]]
==== 言 (yan2, speak, say)

Short forms: 讠

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Mnemonic: imagine **two** (<<二>>) flying **mouths** (<<口>>) trying to speak, but they can't because a plastic **lid** (<<亠>>) has been placed on them

[[炎]]
==== 炎 (yan2, inflammation)

Mnemonic: getting burnt by two **fires** (<<火>>) tends to cause skin inflammation

Words:

* <<肺炎>>

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[[一]]
==== 一 (yi1, one)
Characters:
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[[衣]]
==== 衣 (yi1, clothes)
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Short forms: ⻂
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Words: <<衣服>>
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Characters: <<表>>
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[[乂]]
==== 乂 (yi4, balance)

Mnemonic: balance. Looks like a balance, and it is the symbol of **justice** <<义>>

Characters:

* <<交>>

[[义]]
==== 义 (yi4, justice)

Mnemonic: a **balance** <<乂>> is the symbol of **justice** <<义>>

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[[疫]]
==== 疫 (yi4, epidemic)

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Mnemonic: the world's greatest **epidemic** which is making people **sick** (<<疒>>) is **coffee** (<<殳>>) drinking
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Words:

* <<疫情>>

[[又]]
==== 又 (you4, again)

Characters:

* <<对>>

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[[元]]
==== 元 (yuan2, first)

Mnemonic: my **first** **son** (<<儿>>) had **two** (<<二>>) legs, but the second one had three!

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[[月]]
==== 月 (yue4, moon)

Characters:

* <<青>>

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[[云]]
==== 云 (yun2, cloud)

Mnemonic: she made **two** (<<二>>) **private** (<<厶>>) farts in her home, but that produced a fart **cloud** that surrounded her for the rest of the week

Characters:

* <<动>>
* <<运>>

[[运]]
==== 运 (yun4, sports)

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Notes: the most watched **sport** in heaven is that **cloud** (<<云>>) speed **walking** (<<辵>>)
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Words:

* <<运动>>
* <<幸运>>
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[[爪]]
==== 爪 (zhao3, claws)

Short forms: 爫

Characters:

* <<爬>>

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[[政]]
==== 政 (zheng4, politics)

Mnemonic: to do **politics** in China, you have to **tap** (<<攴>>) those <<xinjiang,Uyghurs>> on the shoulder and tell them to **straighten** (<<正>>) their backs

Words:

* <<政治>>

[[正]]
==== 正 (zheng4, straighten)

Mnemonic: **one** (<<一>>) **stop** (<<止>>) at the bone doctor is all it takes to **straighten** up your hurting back

Characters:

* <<政>>

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[[之]]
==== 之 (zhi1)

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Translations:
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* the preceding sentence modifies the following sentence
** <<青铜兵器之殳简介>>
*** here for example "青铜兵器" describes "殳" as in "'Shu', the bronze weapon".
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** <<海外生存之惑>>
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[[止]]
==== 止 (zhi3, stop)

Characters:

* <<正>>

Words:

* <<禁止>>

[[治]]
==== 治 (zhi4, cure)

Mnemonic: she **cured** him from his heat stroke with water **water** (<<水>>) right on the train **platform** (<<台>>)

Words:

* <<治愈>>
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* <<政治>>
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[[重]]
==== 重 (zhong4, dumbbell)

Mnemonic: the best exercise to get fit is to carry **one thousand** (<<千>>) **dumbells** over one thousand **miles** (<<里>>)

Words:

* <<体重>>

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[[状]]
==== 状 (zhuang4, shape)
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Mnemonic: imagine a **dog** (<<犬>>) model **shaped** from **split wood** pieces (<<丬>>)
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Words:
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* 冠状病毒: <<corona>>
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[[子]]
==== 子 (zi, child)

Mnemonic: Kangxi 39.

Characters:

* <<存>>

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=== English words
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Format:

....
[[<<english-word>>]]
==== <<english-word>> (<<chinese-translation>>, <<chinese-translation>>)

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* <<chinese-translation>>: <<explanation of this usage>>
* <<chinese-translation>>: <<explanation of this usage>>
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....

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This section exists mostly to disambiguate the multiple possible Chinese translations of a given English word.

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[[close]]
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==== Close (关, 合)
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* 关 TODO
* 合 TODO close a book

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[[list]]
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==== List (清单, 列表)
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* <<清单>>: a small list created by one person for a particular purpose as in: <<购物清单>>
* <<列表>>: an infinite list of all possible things of a given type as in: <<现有王位觊觎者列表>>
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[[for-example]]
==== For example (例如)

* <<例如>>

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[[survive]]
==== Survive (幸存, 生存)

* <<幸存>>: survive one specific catastrophe as in: <<肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人>>
* <<生存>>: survive in more general terms, i.e. to earn enough food/money to live as in: <<生存游戏>>

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[[unlucky]]
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==== Unlucky (不幸)
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* <<不幸>>

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=== Chinese words
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Format:
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....
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[[<word>]]
=== <word> (<pinyin>, <main-translation>)
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Characters:
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* <character-contained>
* <character-contained>
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Words:

* <word-containing>
* <word-containing>

Subwords:

* <word-contained>
* <word-contained>

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Translations:

* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
*** <<note-on-this-sentence>>

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Sentences:
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* <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
** <<note-on-this-sentence>>
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Notes:
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* <<random text>>
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* translations is useful if there are multiple possible English translations, and examples if it is more one-to-one with the `main-translation`
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* "Sentences" is like "Translations", but for when the header translation is enough and there are not multiple meanings, so no need to repeat the English word again
* mnemonics are mostly useful for proper nouns, for common nouns, it is usually obvious from the composing characters. This is why Chinese is amazing.

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[[巴西]]
==== 巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)

Characters:

* <<巴>>
* 西

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[[不幸]]
==== 不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)

Characters:

* <<不>>
* <<幸>>

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Sentences:
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* <<肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人>>

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[[歹人]]
==== 歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)

Characters:

* <<歹>>
* <<人>>

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[[等等]]
==== 等等 (deng3 deng3, etcetera)

Characters:

* <<等>>

Sentences:

* <<目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等>>

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[[肺炎]]
==== 肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)

Characters:

* <<肺>>
* <<炎>>

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Sentences:
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* <<肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人>>
** This was one of the most common ways to refer to <<corona>>

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[[冠状病毒]]
==== 冠状病毒 (guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2, Corona virus)

Characters:

* <<冠>>

[[购物清单]]
==== 购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)

Subwords:

* 购物 TODO
* <<清单>>

Sentences:

* <<购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了>>

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[[禁止]]
==== 禁止 (jin4 zhi3, forbidden)
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* <<禁>>
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* <<止>>
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[[禁运]]
==== 禁运 (jin4 yun4, embargo)

Characters:

* <<禁>>
* <<运>>

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[[理论]]
==== 理论 (li3 lun4, logic)

Characters:

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* <<理>>
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* <<论>>

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[[临时]]
==== 临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)

Characters:

* <<临>>
* <<时>>

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Words:

* <<临时工>>

Sentences:

* <<中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算>>

[[临时工]]
==== 临时 (lin2 shi2 gong1, temporary work, day labour)

Subwords:

* <<临时>>

Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_labor

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[[列表]]
==== 列表 (lie4 biao3, list)
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Translations:
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* <<list>>
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Characters:
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* <<列>>
* <<表>>
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Sentences:

* <<现有王位觊觎者列表>>
* <<中国大陆网络用语列表>>

[[例如]]
==== 例如 (li4 ru2, for example)

Translations:

* <<for-example>>
** <<目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等>>
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Characters:

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* 例 TODO
* 如 TODO

Notes:

* vs 比如 TODO https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17537/what-is-the-difference-between-比如-and-例如
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[[六]]
==== 六 (liu4, six)

Mnemonic: we had **eight** <<八>> **pan lids** <<亠>>, but two broke, so we have **six** <<六>> left

Characters:

* <<交>>