巳

sì = s + Ø4

6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150°

巳 = 乚 + 口 : A snake. Socrates is terribly afraid of a snake in the space station's bathroom, and he tries to defend himself with a shovel. However the snake already ate a mandarin, and Sokrates is next.

巳 character breakdown

巳
- 乚
- 口

乚

yà = y + a4

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shoveling a grave in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 巳 as component

起

qǐ = qi + Ø3

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

起 = 己 + 走 : The Queen of Hearts is bored in the space station and plays a game involving a nordic walking pole and butcher's hooks. She uses the nordic walking pole to accelerate the hooks and fires them off once they have enough momentum.

包

ba̅o = b + ao1

surname Bao

包

ba̅o = b + ao1

to cover / to wrap / to hold / to include / to take charge of / to contract (to or for) / package / wrapper / container / bag / to hold or embrace / bundle / packet / CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]

包 = 勹 + 巳 : Beelzebub wants to scare he elephant in front of the aorta. He shows him a colorful handbag, and just as the elephant is having a closer look, a snakes pops out and scares the elephant almost to death.

巴

ba̅ = b + a1

to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

巴 = 巳 + 丨 : The snake found a sweet and sticky lollipop in front if the ashram. Just as she is about to lick it, Beelzebub turns it into a large dinosaur bone, laughing at the snake, the lollipop in his hands.

巴

ba̅ = b + a1

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan

导

導

dǎo = d + ao3

to transmit / to lead / to guide / to conduct / to direct

导 = 寸 + 巳 : Don Quixote brought a ghetto blaster to the aorta and is break dancing next to the house fire. The snake, who acts as director, thinks "not bad" and shows her approval with her body, which forms a "thumbs up" silhouette.

异

異

yì = y + Ø4

different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate

異 = 共 + 田 : Maud Younger (y) has been sent off to help the communist (共) tending the field (田) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She proves very helpful as her secret strange super power (mnemonic symbol for 異), xray vision, helps her see whether the potatoes are ready or not.

异 = 巳 + 廾 : Maud Younger sees a wyvern in the space station's bathroom and thinks it's soo strange that there's a wyvern in the space station. But after all, it's just the lab snake which ate a double axe.

巷

xiàng = xi + ang4

lane / alley

巷 = 共 + 巳 : Marie Curie (xi) unsuspectingly turns into a small alley (巷) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) when she is surprised by a communist (共) sitting on a snake (巳).

祀

sì = s + Ø4

to sacrifice / to offer libation to

祀

禩

sì = s + Ø4

variant of 祀[si4]

汜

sì = s + Ø4

stream which returns after branching

圯

yí = y + Ø2