short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liao2 ning2] province / Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125)
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Li Qingzhao (li) just came back from a trip to Liaoning province (辽) and arrived just inside the aorta's kitchen (ao2). She brought two price cups (了) which are shaped like gladiator sandals (辶) at the base.
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Sir Lancelot (l) has completed (了) his preparations to fight the world. There he stands ready, on top of the Elevator (e5), with a sickle (乛) and a crowbar (亅) in his hands.
to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly
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Mnemonic symbol from "to finish" and the shape of the character: a prize cup.
Li Qingzhao (li) is responsible for manufacturing a prize cup (了). She only needs to add a poetic engraving. Unfortunately, she suffers from a writer's block. In the aorta's living room (ao3), someone left a cryptic message engraved on the walls using a sickle (乛), which is still lying on the floor. Being an accomplished poet Li Qingzhao is able to understand the message clearly (了), realizes its poetic potential and starts to engrave it on the prize cup using a crowbar (亅).
Songliao Plain of northeast China including Songhua River 松花江 through the Liaoning Peninsula, also called the Northeast Plain 東北平原|东北平原[Dong1 bei3 Ping2 yuan2]
History of the Liao Dynasty, twenty first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 116 scrolls