L7

Question 1

小

Answer 1

SMALL// three small drops, repeated thrice in order to emphasise, small small small

Question 2

少

Answer 2

FEW // the extra drop further belittles the smallness, making even fewer

Question 3

吵

Answer 3

NOISY // when lots of people talk it becomes noisy, and everyone’s vocabulary (coming out their gobby mouths) becomes few; “oi!!”

Question 4

孙

Answer 4

GRANDCHILD // not grand actually, but very small child (comparatively speaking)

Question 5

大

Answer 5

LARGE // a whole person takes up one entire character

Question 6

尖

Answer 6

TIP // the small tip at the end of something big, think pagoda

Question 7

夕

Answer 7

EVENING // think of ‘moon’ tilted sideways and partially obscured (by a passing cloud). Classy sky for an evening party-breakaway romance.

Question 8

多

Answer 8

MANY // “many moons ago”, but we’re only going as far as 2, so not thaaaat many

Question 9

够

Answer 9

ENOUGH // the sentence “enough is enough”, repeated many times over, is punishment for one who has crossed many lines, like Bart Simpson.

Question 10

外

Answer 10

OUTSIDE // in the evening, magic performed outside carries a much greater degree of effect, under the magical mood

Question 11

名

Answer 11

NAME // before formal naming, some African fathers follow a tradition of whispering their newborn baby (quiet mouth) in the middle of the night, before the actual ceremony

Question 12

罗

Answer 12

SILK GAUZE // a hair net, a classy one, for one’s nighttime stroll, or for protecting hair overnight. Too silky for non-night wearing.

Question 13

厂

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FACTORY // streamlining production efficiency has been taken to such an extreme that now there’s only the wall and roof left!

Question 14

厅

Answer 14

HALL //not like the Carneigie or Albert, this hall is full of nail based instruments, nail bed bass, naiola, nailimba

Question 15

厉

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STERN // in the regimented grammar school, like a factory line, students are made to learn thousands of facts by the stern headteacher

Question 16

厚

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THICK // a child, abandoned on wild cliffs, under the heat of the sun, doomed to a thick life by their thick parents.

Question 17

石

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STONE // below the cliff, a cave of unknown treasures. With the unusual over-hang its a steep descent but be sure to use that phrase at the bottom, “open…”

Question 18

砂

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GRAVEL // a few stones for the garden path, that’s all you ordered, but instead they’ve delivered a truck load of gravel. That’s not a few!

Question 19

妙

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WONDERFUL // when a lady is described as ‘wonderful’ we mean she’s few and far between

Question 20

肖

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RESEMBLE // like a father’s ‘chip off the old block’, this is a small bit of old mans flesh /// SPARKS //// CANDLE

Question 21

削

Answer 21

PEEL // for want of a peeler, you can chuck an apple in the air, then slice its skin off with a sabre. Watch the sparks fly!

Question 22

光

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RAY // forget middle stroke, it’s just for aesthetics. Know those
Particles that accompany a sunny day, the ‘dust’. They’re actually little legs floating towards you.

Question 23

太

Answer 23

OVERLY // eugh, too much, the st Bernard dog (huge) is slobbering everywhere

Question 24

省

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ECONOMIZE // a head covered in eyes has ‘eyes too big for its stomach’ so to save cash, economy calls for fewer eyes

Question 25

奇

Answer 25

STRANGE // “strange but true” column has the story of a massive st Bernard dog got mouth sealed with nails because he was rummaging around in the brandy store