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Mnemonic symbol: prepositions are what glue the sentence together. Honey is as sticky as glue, so I'll represent 于 by a honey jar.
Yu the Great was assigned to repair the electrics of the space station's entrance, but instead she was snacking some honey from a honey jar. Now her capacitor got stuck in the honey and she has to use a crowbar to lever it out.
(of time or place) in; at; on / (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for / (indicating a source) from; out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by
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Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).
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Yu the Great (yu) just earned her PhD in the space station (Ø3) and is proudly putting on her graduation cap (宀). She was measuring cosmic (宇) rays by investigating the traces they left in a honey jar (于) and is demonstrating her experiment for the camera.
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Yu the Great (yu) wants to stick a mandarin (口) into a honey jar (于) and eat it, but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) the mandarin is appealing (吁) to her to not do it.
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Yu the Great (yu) wants to stick a mandarin (口) into a honey jar (于) and eat it, but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) the mandarin is appealing (吁) to her to not do it.