欠 is a picture of a mouth on top it’s wide open food isn’t going into it words aren’t coming out of it but air is coming out of it. on the bottom is a person 人. he might be yawning, singing, or laughing. That’s its literal meaning. Metaphorically it means deficient lacking: e.g. lacking sleep, lacking decorum lacking whatever caused that gaping mouth to open wide but not say words or stuff the pie hole.
打哈欠da3ha1qian5 yawn
打da3
打 strike.
hand 手shou3 on the left (semantic)nail 丁ding1 on the right (phonetic)
哈ha1
哈ha1 yawn,laugh is mouth on the left 口 + closed 合he2 on the right. 合he2 means closed and is mouth with something coming out of it on top and mouth below it’s two people kissing as a symbol of “closed”
欠钱qianqian deficit
钱qian2 money = gold on the left 金jin (semantic) + crossed halberds on the right 戋jian1(phonetic). Gap/Gaping+Money=Deficit. 金+戋=钱
欠条qiantiao
欠条qiantiao debt instrument
条tiao2
条tiao2 strip walking on top 夂zhi3, wood on the bottom 木mu4。 Wood here means pattern: Winding strip (“walking” wood e.g. paper, vine, leaves). Q.uid I.s A.rgentinian N.ote: T.his I.s A.n O.BLIGATION, DEBT INSTRUMENT, BOND
欠揍qianzou
欠揍qianzou gaping mouth + smash. Smashmouth.
奏zou4=丰feng1+大da4+天tian1=奏zou4 to play.
Big4+Fertile Abundant Crosshatched1=Covering Over Heaven1 = produce something e.g. music pleasing to heaven and thus also to heaven’s earthly prince, the emperor. 手+奏=揍
歌
歌ge gopnik gege poyut 哥哥歌 big brother belts out good song
喜欢xi3huan1
喜欢xihuan baraban happy drumbeat 喜欢 rhymes with yawn. drum on the left 喜 (pictogram of a drum)
欢huan1
欢huan1chorus of owls feeding on the right and singing in joy as a consequence or cause of their feeding frenzy.
又you4 though now a hand is sometimes a simplified form of what used to be an owl in the oracle bone script.