拙

awkward / clumsy / dull / inelegant / (polite) my / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]

拙 = 出 + 扌 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) wants to use the emergency exit (出) in front of the observatory (o1), but it has to be operated using eight toy claws (扌) at the same time. Julian Giant Squid is just too clumsy (拙) to do so and so he is unable to open the emergency exit door.

拙 character breakdown

拙
- 出
  - 凵
  - 屮
  - 山
    - 丨
    - 凵
  - 彐
    - 二
      - 一
- 扌
  - 亅
  - 二
    - 一

出

chu̅ = chu + Ø1

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

出 = 屮 + 凵 : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.

扌

shǒu = sh + ou3

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

扌 = 二 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

出

齣

chu̅ = chu + Ø1

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)