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"road" or "way"
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道
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neck of a road...traffic at standstill on roadway..bottleneck |
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guidance
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導
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when accepting someone's guidance, we permit ourselves to be glued to a certain road or way of doing something, and try to stick to it |
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crossing
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辻
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cross set on a road |
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swift
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迅
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crossing with barbed fish hook...much like clover leaf design on highway to improve speed efficiency of traffic |
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create
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造
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make something out of nothing...way of revelation...god created the world out of a dark and chaotic nothingness |
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urge
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迫
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urge something to do something...may your way as appealing as possible...even whitewashing it a little |
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escape
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逃
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when you're escaping, you always feel like you're not running fast enough...like a turtle on a road |
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environs, area, vicinity, boundary
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辺
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to keep environs clean and safe you cement daggers into the road and the blades are pointed upward so that no polluting traffic may pass through |
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patrol
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巡
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a virtual deluge of motorcycle police washing down a road |
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car
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車
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first and last stroke are the front and back wheels. middle stroke are the seat carriage |
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take along, accompany
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連
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take along people, car on the road picking up friends and take them along |
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rut, track
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軌
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car stuck in a rut, baseball team stuck in a rut |
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transport
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輸
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left side is a vehicle. right side, first 3 strokes are the primitive for meeting. below are flesh and saber, which all combine to mean butcher. think of a "trucker's convoy" |
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in front
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前
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butcher hacking away with a knife at a slab of meat with a pair of ram horns placed in fron t of him |
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each
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各
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someone walking with his/her mouth between his/her legs....to each his/her own |
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status
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格
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trees as status symbols, especially for city people who don't seem them often, trees = suburbs = rich people = status |
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abbrevation
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略
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each field has its own abbreviation...note that stonger primitive is on the left |
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guest
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客
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when you are a guest in a courteous town, each household has its own way of welcoming you and each house becomes your home |
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forehead, sum, amount, frame
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額
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out of respect you don't look direct into a guest's eyes, but at the top button of their collar. here, however, you look at their forehead |
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summer
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夏
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fatigued by the heat during the summer, your head hangs down nearly as far as your walking legs, or rather your "dragging legs" |
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dispose
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処
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stretched out walking legs and little bit of wind...using one's legs to kick something out of the way |
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twig
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条
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pinocchio's legs...made of two trigs from a tree, giving him a set of twigy shanks |
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fall
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落
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when water falls it splashes, when flower petals fall, they float gently in the breeze. to each thing its own way of falling |
