Failure in Visiting the Garden is a beautiful small Chinese poetry. The author is the poet Ye Shao Weng (叶绍翁) in the Southern Song Dynasty. This Chinese poetry describes the author wanted to visit friend’s garden, but failed. Green moss and red apricot-twig shows the vitality of spring. Reveal the author fondness for spring.
The English [...]

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The Chinese characters 漏 meaning is leak.
The original Chinese character places rain 雨 under roof (abbreviation of 屋, house), enforcing the idea of “leak” – rain seeping through the roof into the house. The modern form reinforces the concept by adding more water in the form of the radical: 氵 (water): 漏.

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The Chinese characters 雨 meaning is rain.
雨, the Chinese character for rain, is a picture of raindrops falling vertically down from a cloud in the heavens. Not all welcome the rain as showers of blessing from heaven for, as the saying goes, “The farmer hopes for rain, the traveler for fine weather.”

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The Chinese characters 泉 meaning is spring; fountain.
The early forms show water gushing out from a mountain spring. The modern form: 泉, distilled from 白 (pure) and 水 (water), symbolizes the fountain or spring - source of pure, wholesome drinking water and the inspired expression: “When you drink water, think of the mountain spring (or [...]

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The Chinese characters 冰 meaning is ice.
The Chinese character for ice 冰, the radical 冫 depicts water dripping and freezing into an icicle. It was added to 水 (water) to freeze and crystallize it into “frozen water” or ice. Our illustration applies 冰 figuratively, contrasting icy with fiery passion.

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The Chinese characters 永 meaning is everlasting; perpetual; forever.
One generation comes and another goes, but water flows on incessantly in a continuous cycle. From this unceasing flow of water came the ideogram for “everlasting”: 永. A variation of water (水), with foams and ripples added. 永 will long be remembered as the “everlasting” Chinese character [...]

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The Chinese characters 水 meaning is water.
Water (水), a natural source of power, is represented by a pictograph of surging waters with a central mainstream and four whirls. A variant form, using only three drops (氵), operates as radical to induce a flood of “watery” Chinese characters. To this day, the proverbial saying is afloat: [...]

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The Chinese characters 卖 meaning is sell.
賣 is derived by loading 買 (the business of netting in cowries) with 士 (out, a contraction of 出). Hence 賣 means to sell, i.e., to put out or push goods and netting in cowrie-money (貝). Our picture exposes the fishy business of pushing and netting.

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The Chinese characters 买 meaning is buy.
This ideogram is made up of a net and 貝 (money cowrie). 買 means to buy, i.e., net the goods, paying the price in cowries. This is often done with bargain offers. The simplified form: 买 offered in place of the regular form: 買 may not seem quite a [...]

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The Chinese characters 贵 meaning is expensive; honorable.
A basket or container filled with precious cowries: 贝 (once used as money) means expensive. By extension, it also means high-class or honorable. In this connection, humble self (贱) ranks honorable readers (贵) for their appreciation and interest in the bilingual page.

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