烹

cooking method / to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China)

烹 = 亨 + 灬 : Pinocchio (p) is boiling (烹) Joseph Henry (亨) alive on a grill (灬) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

烹 character breakdown

烹
- 亨
  - 了
    - 乛
    - 亅
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶
  - 口
- 灬

prosperous / henry (unit of inductance)

亨 = 亠 + 口 + 了 : Mnemonic symbol: American scientist Joseph Henry.

Before Henry (亨) invented inductance he used to hang out with Hamlet (h) a lot in front of the engine ((e)ng1). One day he observed Hamlet shifting a mandarin (口) from a price cup (了) to a beret (亠) and vice versa, which gave him the idea of putting an iron core into an electromagnet.

灬

huǒ = hu + o3

"fire" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 86), occurring in 熙, 然, 熊 etc

I will represent this "fire" component by a grill.