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to exempt, to avoid
bowing person [ren] + window [] + person/legs [ren]
a person is crouching through a window and runs away to avoid the recruitment since he will not be exempt |
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night, evening; late
when the sun (日) "avoids" (免) the sky it is late in the evening |
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impatient
person [ren] + hand (ji) + heart (xin)
a man is so impatient that his heart is not in his chest but in his hand |
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crotch (prepone);
boundary, enclosure |
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magnificent,
splendid, brilliant
person [ren] + enclosure [symbol] + big, great [da]
for highly respected persons people build a large magnificent pantheon with splendid big pillars |
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to (ex)change;
to swap/trade
hand (shou) + shine/brilliant (huan)
in front of a magnificent pantheon a lot of ordinary hand-to-hand swaps and trades are executed |
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disaster, adversity (nedaće)
a helpless (kneeling) person trapped between two cliffs emphasizes the adversity of the situation;
困厄 (kùn'è – "in dire straits") |
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danger(ous), precarious
person [ren] + cliff (厂) + disaster (e)
a man on a cliff is in a danger of a possible disaster |
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color, tint, hue
person [ren, ⺈] + snake (巴)
A person mesmerized by a snake's (巴) changing colors |
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long time
duration of time
person [ren] + person/man [symbol]
to make a straight person (人) bent like an elder (⺈) - that takes long time |
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person
"slanting knife head"
short variant, used on the top; originally depicted a person with a bent posture; it often implies motion/posture, avoidance/escape, or danger |
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to escape, to flee
a rabbit (兔) likes to "walk away" (辶) so swiftly that it is a synonym for fleeing away |
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rabbit, hare
免 (to avoid) + an extra dot (丶) as a tail of a rabbit |
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