条

strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

条 = 夂 + 朩 : Mnemonic symbol: a bungee cord.

条 = 夂 + 朩 : Mother Teresa helps to clear a sewage pipe just inside the aorta's kitchen. With a bungee cord, she fishes a heap of high heels out of the sewage pipe.

条 character breakdown

条
- 夂
  - 丿
  - 又
    - ㇏
    - ㇇
- 木
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨
- 朩
  - 一
  - 小
    - 亅
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏

夂

zhǐ = zh + Ø3

"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]

夂 = 丿 + 又 : Mnemonic symbol: In high heels, one can walk only slowly. James II of England (zh) is wearing high heels (夂) inside the space station's living room (Ø3). He's not only walking slowly (夂), he even slips on a banana (丿)! He's lucky to land on a boxing glove (又) though.

木

mù = mu + Ø4

surname Mu

木

mù = mu + Ø4

tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

木 = 八 + 十 : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).

朩

one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "pin"), an ancient Korean writing system

朩 = 一 + 小 : Let's say this is a sewage pipe which sticks out of the floor. The horizontal line is the floor level, and 小 below it represents the stuff in the earth.

木

mù = mu + Ø4

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden