誓

oath / vow / to swear / to pledge

誓 = 折 + 言 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) announces a pledge (誓) using a megaphone (言) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) that he'll never use his folding knife (折) to hurt anyone.

誓 character breakdown

誓
- 折
  - 扌
    - 亅
    - 二
      - 一
  - 斤
    - 丅
      - 一
      - 丨
    - ⺁
      - 丿
- 言
  - 二
    - 一
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶
  - 口

折

shé = sh + e2

to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)

折

zhe̅ = zh + e1

to turn sth over / to turn upside down / to tip sth out (of a container)

折

zhé = zh + e2

to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book

折 = 扌 + 斤 : James II of England (zh) wants to lift a pair of barbells (斤) in the elevator's kitchen (e2), but the barbells are very heavy. He tries to use toy claws (扌) and folding (折) knifes (mnemonic symbol for 折) as levers, but they both snap (折).

折

摺

zhé = zh + e2

variant of 折[zhe2] / to fold

言

yán = y + an2

words / speech / to say / to talk

言 = 亠 + 二 + 口 : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

言 = 亠 + 二 + 口 : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.