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剪 scissors

scissors - two conjoined knives - save ener[gy 'n] time. Every month I bend down to cut weeds in my lawn and stand up to look at my work, satisfied.
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走 walk

I walk everywhere looking for the best soil 土 for growing apples. In one valley I taste the best apple I ever ha[d, so] I stop 止.
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國 country

Would you rather go over to that country and be enclosed there forever or be enclosed in this one?
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影 shadow

(Character includes sun radical, lines resembling rays of light, a rectangle like a screen, and in lower left, a person's face watching).
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牙 tooth

"Do you floss your teeth (tooth)?" I ask. The German jumps up and answers "Ja!" (Looks like floss being out from between two front teeth).
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德 virtue

I step inside the German castle, climb up the tower, and look around. Do I like it? Duh! I'll cherish the memory in my heart.
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事 matter

“Calm down! What’s the matter?” says [Sher]lock. Out of the person’s mouth comes a story of a brush that painted a giant “T” in the middle 中 of town.
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舀 to ladle out

With a mortar in my hand (claw), I (scoop) ladle out water from the tin[y ou]tdoor pool.
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參 participate

This artis[t's an]tisocial, three times as private as any other person, but hand her a bristle brush, and she'll participate.
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背 back

After fishing the North Bay each month, I walk back down south with a pack of fish meat on my back.
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厽 fortress

This fortress is three times as private as anything a [lay]person could design. To enter, walk down an underground passage and then up into it.
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話 words

There's a person [who o]ffers interpretation services downtown, saying words in multiple tongues.
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