合

He2 Close, Shut, Combine, Join, Fit
It’s a pictogram of two mouths kissing! Aw. 🙂
H.is
E.xpression
CLOSE SHUT COMBINE JOIN FIT

盒

He2 Box
Phono-semantic. It’s a picture of a pan 皿 MIN2 which is the pictographic element beneath the word for combine as its phonetic element.
H.eavy
E.xemplar
BOX min e!

军

jun1 army
War chariot 车 che1
under roof 宀
J.ust
U.nderneath
N.ew
ARMY war chariot

事

shi4
matter affair matter of importance
S.o
H.ere
I.s
A MATTER AN AFFAIR OF IMPORTANCE
Ideogram: Hand grasping a peg and stiring it around

演

yan3
Y.es
A.
N.ew
DRILL DEVELOP EXERCISE
This is a target stuffed dummy huang 黄 under the roof 宀 of an archery training ground near a river. Training halls tended to be near rivers and under rooves. Water is needed for hard training both to drink and then bathe. Roof is needed for good shooting practice to avoid sun or even wind.

寅

yin2
Respect Revere Reverence
Y.es
I.
N.ow
RESPECT REVERE

习

xi2
revision review exercise
H.ere’s
S.ome
I.ntelligence:
EXERCISE REVIEW REVISION
This is the image of the wing of a fledgling learning to fly and thus also includes the idea of inversion, flapping, flipping.

合军事演习
hejunshiyanxi
Joint military training exercise; joint wargame.

My interlocutors, it seems, are hopeful of bilateral training exercises as confidence building measures. I hold out no such hopes though I may be wrong and have Hedged accordingly.

會

Hui Meeting. Traditional character.
H.ere
U.nderneath
I.t
A MEETING

 

 

 

 

Scorsese is a visual genius.