爽

bright / clear / crisp / open / frank / straightforward / to feel well / fine / pleasurable / invigorating / to deviate

爽 = 㸚 + 大 : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) explores the anglepod's living room (ang3) and bumps into a hostile robot (大). As the robot is about to charge at him Sheldon quickly throws a bunch of pliers (㸚) at him. The robot eats the pliers and thinks they are quite crisp (爽) and refreshing (爽).

爽 character breakdown

爽
- 大
  - 一
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- 㸚
  - 爻
    - 乂
      - 丿
      - ㇏

大

dài = d + ai4

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

㸚

lǐ = li + Ø3

sparse and clear

㸚 = 爻 + 爻 : Mnemonic symbol: a sparse (which means most elements are zero) matrix. The character 㸚 itself looks like a matrix. Li Qingzhao (li) is developing a new notation in the space station's living room (Ø3) where she notes down a sparse matrix (㸚) using the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams (爻).

㸚

lì = li + Ø4

to stop / to connect

大

dà = d + a4

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

大 = 一 + 人 : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.