干

gan

dry; clean; shield

to do; main part

a shield can also keep one dry from rain, and it can protect fragile stems from hail from the sky

并

bing

to combine, merge

to unite,

side by side; also

a simplified form of 並, two men 竝 standing

Two people (丷) standing side by side (丨丨) under one roof (一) = (merged) 并 (united)

瓦

wa

tile (crijep, pločica)

earthenware (zemljano posuđe)

When the shape of two tiles fitting together “互[hù]” came to mean ‘mutual,’ the Chinese added a dot (丶) to stress the meaning ‘tile.’

a curved interlocking roof tiles

瓶

ping

bottle, vase, flask

combine (bing) + tile (wa)

to combine fire + clay to make a ceramic vase or bottle

幸

xing

fortunate, lucky;

happiness

to cultivate the soil (土) is an toilsome (辛) and laborious job, but it is a fortunate chance to feel lucky

译

yi

to translate/decode

to interpret

a word + again + double cross/orthodox cross/shorthand 

to find a word for this character is not hard (to translate) the problem is to decode the shorthand

择

ze

to select, to choose

a hand has to select the most suitable shorthand