Mandarinbanana

ruò = ru + o4

to seem / like / as / if

若 = 艹 + 右 : Mnemonic symbol: a wooden chicken as in 呆若木鸡, "dumb as a wooden chicken".

A nazi wants to beat up a wooden chicken in the observatory's bathroom for being different, but just as he charges across a sheet of artificial lawn Rachel Rhinoceros pulls she sheet from under his feet and lets him topple head-first to the ground. She thinks that the nazi is truly as dumb as a wooden chicken.

再

zài = z + ai4

again; once more; re- / second; another / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis)

再 = 一 + 冉 : Zorro finally received the flute he was waiting for so long in the airplane's bathroom. He is so moved that he cries 再见 again and again and waves the mail snail goodbye with a handkerchief.

闹

鬧

nào

事

shì

to cause trouble / to create a disturbance

闹

閙

nào = n + ao4

variant of 鬧|闹[nao4]

闹 = 市 + 门 : Napoleon (n) opened a shop (市) just inside the aorta's entrance (ao4) and it is bustling with noise (闹). His supermarket is so successful because he installed a trap door (门) in the floor above through which new customers keep falling.

闹

鬧

nào = n + ao4

noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke

闹 = 市 + 门 : Napoleon (n) opened a shop (市) just inside the aorta's entrance (ao4) and it is bustling with noise (闹). His supermarket is so successful because he installed a trap door (门) in the floor above through which new customers keep falling.

事

shì = sh + Ø4

matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

事 = 𠮛 + 彐 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: The thing.

事 = 𠮛 + 彐 + 亅 : Sherlock Holmes read a magic scroll in the bathroom of the space station. The scroll promised eternal love to anyone who reads it and wears a pig's nose while doing so, and Sherlock gave it a try. Now he summoned the thing, and he is scared to death! All he has to defend with is a crowbar. However, he never was in danger: Since he is wearing the pig snout, the thing thinks Sherlock is his mommy, and it just wants to cuddle.

就

jiù

地

dì

locally / on the spot

就

jiù = ji + ou4

at once / right away / only / just (emphasis) / as early as / already / as soon as / then / in that case / as many as / even if / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / to suffer / subjected to / to accomplish / to take advantage of / to go with (of foods) / with regard to / concerning

就 = 京 + 尤 : Mnemonic symbol: somebody leaving the scene right away using jet packs.

就 = 京 + 尤 : Joan of Arc got a medal for having the most awesome underpants in the outhouse's bathroom. She is embarrassed for just wearing underpants anyway, so she leaves the scene on the spot using jet packs.

就

jiù = ji + ou4

(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...

地

de = d + e5

-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

地

dì = di + Ø4

earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]

地 = 也 + 土 : Dorothy Gale (di) operates the excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to move a pile of dirt (土) out of the way.

擒

qín = qi + (e)n2

to capture

拿

㧱

ná = n + a2

old variant of 拿[na2]

拿 = 合 + 手 : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.

拿

拏

ná = n + a2

variant of 拿[na2]

拿 = 合 + 手 : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.

拿

ná = n + a2

to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

拿 = 合 + 手 : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.

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