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力 is a pictograph, said to be based on the shape of a farm tool.
Some also interpret it as representing an arm flexing with visible muscles, but it's unclear which interpretation is historically more accurate.

#11 — to enter, to let in, to put in

#12 — eight, the number 8, the eighth in order

#13 — city outskirts, suburbs

#14 — to cover, to conceal

#15 — ice, oil, to congeal/freeze

#16 — small table, low bench (안석)

#17 — to open the mouth, to gape

#18 — sword, knife, sharp-edged tool

#19 — power, force, strength

#20 — to wrap, to embrace

#21 — dagger, spoon

#22 — box, container, case

#23 — to cover, to conceal

#24 — ten, the number 10, tenth

#25 — fortune-telling, divination

#26 — military authorization seals, kneeling person

#27 — cliff, habitable cave on a cliff, slope

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力

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