The Chinese characters 钉 meaning is nail.
Originally, this Chinese character was a pictograph of a nail: 丁. Clarified with the metal radical (金), it is now simplified to 钉. 丁 itself now stands for a strong male adult or soldier for, in a sense, nails are soldiers - strong, useful but never really valued. Hence [...]

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The Chinese characters 针 meaning is needle.
The original form of this Chinese character comprises 金 (metal) and 咸 (bite). The needle takes up, as it were, mouthfuls of cloth, biting its way along. The regular form it has a good point, with the substitute phonetic 十 resembling a threaded needle - warning us never to [...]

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The Chinese characters 钱 meaning is money.
Two spears (戈) breaking gold (金) into pieces means “money”: 钱. And money, taking on the vicious character of spears, means power. So, when money talks, man listens in silence and whispers: “If you are rich, you speak the truth; if you are poor, your words are but lies.”

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The Chinese characters 银 meaning is silver.
Silver is produced by consolidating 金 (gold) with 艮 (hard): 银. 艮, originally the eye (目) turned suddenly around to look a man full in the face defiantly, means “obstinate”. Compared with gold, silver is a hard metal, more precious than common copper. Hence the saying: “Even he who [...]

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I like travelling, I hope to experience various region’s culture, scenery, custom, local diet and art. I finished my Beijing tours in the last month. The historic sites of Beijing make me be unable to forget. Perhaps I will travel Beijing again in the future. I open my tour map now, begin to plan next [...]

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Most scholars think this poem was written in 759 when the poet in exile, favored by a general amnesty, was on his way from White Emperor Town in modern Sichuan Province to Jiangling in modern Hubei Province. But, at variance with these scholars, I think this quatrain was written when the poet left home at [...]

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The Chinese characters 金 meaning is gold; metal.
The regular form reveals two nuggets: 金. In the simplified radical form, even these two remaining nuggets are missing: 钅. However, the proverb reassures us: “True gold fears no fire.” Only thieves!

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The Chinese characters 贪 meaning is covet; greed.
The presence (今)of anything precious (贝, cowrie money) arouses the emotion of covetousness or greed. Hence: 贪, to covet. Such greed enables a person to gain the things money can buy and lose the things money cannot buy.

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The Chinese characters 念 meaning is read; recite.
The components of 念 are 今 (present) and 心 (heart). 念 is to bring to mind the past - by means of reading, reciting or chanting. Derived meanings include thinking, studying, remembering and even wishing to revive the past.

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The Chinese characters 今 meaning is now; present.
This Chinese character, dealing with time, it shows the continuity of time and unity of its three elements: past, present and future. 今, the time element we are always in contact with - the present.

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