Lesson 2

Question 1

I

Answer 1

吾

I am the place with five mouths, 2 nostrils, 2 ears and 1 mouth. “Perceiving subject”

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Question 2

Risk

Answer 2

冒

Don’t risk looking at the sun

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Question 3

Companion

Answer 3

朋

Flesh of my flesh

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Question 4

Bright

Answer 4

明

Sun and moon are bright

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Question 5

Chant

Answer 5

唱

One mouth making no noise (choirmaster) and two with tongues wagging chanting

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Question 6

Sparkle

Answer 6

晶

Hold a diamond up to the light and you see that every facet becomes mini Suns and sparkles

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Question 7

Goods

Answer 7

品

Massed produced goods for the masses of open mouths

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Question 8

Spine

Answer 8

呂

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Question 9

Prosperous

Answer 9

昌

What could be more prosperous than a sky with two Suns

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Question 10

Early

Answer 10

早

The first flower of the day blooms early

(Primitive - sunflower)

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Question 11

Rising sun

Answer 11

旭

Baseball is very popular in the land of the rising sun

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Question 12

Generation

Answer 12

世

Generation is a period of thirty years here we see three tens

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Question 13

Stomach

Answer 13

胃

(Part of body, brain)

The part of the body that keeps the brain in working order is the stomach

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Question 14

Night break

Answer 14

旦

Sun rising over the horizon ending the night

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Question 15

Gall bladder

Answer 15

胆

Don’t let the night break on your gall bladder

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Question 16

Span

Answer 16

亘

Sunrise to sunset. The span of a day

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Question 17

Concave

Answer 17

凹

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Question 18

Convex

Answer 18

凸

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Question 19

Old

Answer 19

古

(Ten and mouth) pictograph of a tombstone

(Primitive - abstract sense of old)

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