署

office / bureau / (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign / to arrange

署 = 罒 + 者 : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) started a petition in the space station (Ø3). He wants the Sun King (者) to sign (署) his petition to ban fishing nets (罒).

署 character breakdown

署
- 罒
- 者
  - 日
    - 一
    - 囗
  - ⺹
    - 丿
    - 土
      - 一
      - 十
        
        一
        
        丨

罒

wǎng = w + ang3

net (Kangxi radical 122)

This one just looks like a fishing net. Willy walrus (w) is trying to fish frozen fish from the freezer with a net (罒) inside the anglepod's living room (ang3).

者

zhě = zh + e3

(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this

者 = ⺹ + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: the sun (日) is wearing a crown (⺹). This reminds me of Louis XIV, le Roi Soleil, the Sun King, which will thus be the mnemonic symbol for 者. The crown (⺹) wearing sun (日), the Sun King (者) and James II of England (zh) are taking part in a writing contest in the elevator's living room (e3) to see who of them is the best author (作者).

Characters with 署 as component

薯

shǔ = shu + Ø3

potato / yam

薯 = 艹 + 罒 + 者 : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) has to pay tithes to the Sun King (者). Together they are harvesting the potatoes (薯) Sheldon planted into sheets of artificial lawn (艹) in the space station's living quarters (Ø3) by filtering them through a net (罒).

薯

藷

shǔ = shu + Ø3

variant of 薯[shu3]

曙

shǔ = shu + Ø3

daybreak / dawn / the dawn of a new epoch (metaphor) / Taiwan pr. [shu4]

糬

shǔ = shu + Ø3

see 麻糬[ma2 shu3]