Kanji 26

QuestionAnswer
覀 component
west

This is just a compressed version of the kanji for west.

要
need

In the west, a woman has lots of needs.

甘
sweet

One dose of stevia is a sweet as twenty-one sugar cubes.

示
show

You're looking for two small people for your midget show.

余
surplus

You have so much surplus that you can afford to see a show under a roof.

長
long

The stick needs three clothes to be covered. It's long.

𠃊 component
shelf

A shelf is basically one line on which you can put stuff.

亡
perish

You are put between some shelfs with a lidon top. That's how you perish.

忘
forget

If you forget something, it perishes from your heart.

酉 component
alcohol

For good alcohol, one must look west.

酒
alcohol
咼 component
dishonest

Mouths in the desert are dishonest.

過
exceed

If you walk the dishonest path, your suffering will exceed that of others.

石
stone
砂
sand
肀 component
scratch

A scratch is a line left behind by a claw.

唐
Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty was a bunch of people living on a cliff scratching their mouths all the time.

糖
sugar

They didn't have rice during the Tang dynasty, so they ate sugar instead.

太
fat
簡
simplicity

The regular intervals on a bamboo stalk are the essence of simplicity.

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