捏
=
扌
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日
+
土
:
The sun (日) got some dirt (土) in her eye and Nefertiti (ni) helps her to get it out in front of the elevator (e1). Nefertiti pinches (捏) the dirt with her fingers and uses a toy claw (扌) to pull the larger pieces out.
工
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二
+
丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.