ya̅o
hóu
dǎn
gǎn
fǎn
chu̅
tia̅n
tíng
The monkey mocks the Heavenly Majesty.
goblin / witch / devil / bewitching / enchanting / monster / phantom / demon

= + : Maud Younger (y), Snow White (夭) and Bessie Coleman (女) have all been bewitched (妖) by a demon (妖). They are sleeping next to each other in front of the aorta (ao1).
monkey / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Hamlet (h) and a monkey (猴) are watching a huge portrait of the marquis (侯) holding a dachshund (犭) on his lap in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Hamlet recognizes the murderer of his father in him an shakes his fist at him, while the monkey mocks him by making funny faces and sticking out his tongue.
to dare (negative connotation) / to have the audacity to (do sth)
gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)

= + : Don Quixote (d) suffers from a huge moon-shaped (月) gall stone (胆), so inside of the anthill (an3) he drinks medicine from a big mug (旦). His moon gall stone is so big, it has gall stones on its own and it is drinking medicine from a mug as well.
to dare / daring / (polite) may I venture

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: 石敢当, stone tablet erected to ward off evil spirits.

Guy Fawkes erected a stone tablet to ward off evil spirits inside of the anthill, but as he was drinking at the bar he noticed how the stone tablet suddenly started moving all on its own and tried to cut off Guy's ear with a sickle. Consequently, Guy Fawkes takes a sledgehammer and destroys the stone tablet to be safe; he wouldn't dare to have another drink setting next to this weird tablet.
contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system

= + : A protester (mnemonic symbol for 反) makes a racket in the anthill's living room (an3). He's got a huge banana tree (⺁) with him and wants to protest against the exploitation of banana farm workers. Frankenstein's Monster (f) is annoyed by him and punches him with a boxing glove (又).
to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.
variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
day / sky / heaven

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) programmed a robot (大) to play a flute duet together with her in front of the anthill (an1). As they play their flutes (一) an angel (天) hears their heavenly tune and descends from heaven to listen to them.
main hall / front courtyard / law court

= 广 + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to one-up her palace courtyard (廷) for the cat-o-nine tails in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). She upgrades it to the main hall (庭) by covering the walled courtyard with a parachute (广) as canopy.