锄

a hoe / to hoe or dig / to weed / to get rid of

锄 = 助 + 钅 : Chantal Chicken (chu) is hoeing (锄) her garden just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). It is easy to pop the water wings (助) that are growing between the plants with her hoe, but the golden harpoons (钅) are very difficult to get rid of.

锄 character breakdown

锄
- 助
  - 且
    - 一
    - 目
      - 二
        
        一
      - 囗
  - 力
    - 丿
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
- 钅

助

zhù = zhu + Ø4

to help / to assist

助 = 且 + 力 : Mnemonic symbol: water wings helping you to learn how to swim.

Julian Giant Squid wants to learn how to swim and put on a lot of floaties in the space station's bathroom. As he hits the power button to inflate the high tech floaties remotely he forgot that there are still a lot of floaties left, stored in the shelf—he is reminded instanlty as also all of them inflate.

钅

Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.