green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lü4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)
绿
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录
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纟
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Loki (lü) wants to preserve the green (绿) chlorophyll of leaves he collected in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) by putting them into his diary (录). As he opens his diary a few days later he is very upset to see that the silk worm (纟) ate all of them by eating through the pages of his diary.
叶
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十
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口
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Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats
叶
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十
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口
:
Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.