L3 Flashcards
丶
DROP // but a significant addition, like poison (slanted either way)
丨
WALKING STICK // all obvious connotations, frailty etc
自
ONESELF // mother nature made a little drop on our faces, a nose. Chinese point to nose as self
白
WHITE // when drop meets sunlight, it’s prism makes white light
百
HUNDRED // take one away from a hundred to get white, 99, the white year of ones life
皂
SOAP // cutting through dirt to make white, dicing up from below the white surface
旧
OLD // too many days in the sun and we’ll need a walking stick, remembering “the good old days”
中
MIDDLE // walking stick jammed right through your lips, a grotesque image of consuming more food and talking less in middle age
千
THOUSAND // eye dropper squeezes out just two more 0s, adding to the ten below
舌
TONGUE // a thousands mouths speak With one common tongue
升
LITRE // a carafe filled with needles, a litre of robot energy drink
丸
PILL(s) // baseball player keeps a bottle of pills on his thigh while kneeling, in case he needs that extra kick for a home run
卜
DIVINATION // walking stick and a drop, like gandalfs staff with a potion tied to it
占
TELL FORTUNES // divination plus mouth to tell people all about it
上
ABOVE // magic wand, magically standing above ground… Magically!
