见
jian4
APPEAR, SEE. It’s actually a picture of an eye with lashes. This was more obvious in the traditional form: 見
现
xian4
NOW, PRESENT, SHOW. Kings 王 like to SHOW off their wealth, PRESENTing it for everyone.
讯
xun4
INVESTIGATE; INTERROGATE; INFORMATION. Another character that contains the “speak”-radical. Apart from that, there’s also a cross, so we could think of the [...]
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Characters 171-190
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