Mandarinbanana

怎 = 乍 + 心 : Zorro wakes up in the encampment and can't remember how he even got there. Slowly, as he touches his head, he realizes that he has a Mohawk haircut now and almost gets a heart attack. His heart is pumping so hard as if it wanted to jump out of his chest. How on earth could this have happened???

么

麼

má = m + a2

exclamatory final particle

么

麼

ma = m + a5

interrogative final particle

么

麼

me = m + e5

suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc

么 = 丿 + 厶 : Mahatma Gandhi wears a fake nose and wants to eat a banana on top of the elevator, but it's actually very hard to eat a banana when you're wearing a fake nose.

么

麽

me = m + e5

variant of 麼|么[me5]

么 = 丿 + 厶 : Mahatma Gandhi wears a fake nose and wants to eat a banana on top of the elevator, but it's actually very hard to eat a banana when you're wearing a fake nose.

幺

么

ya̅o = y + ao1

surname Yao

幺

么

ya̅o = y + ao1

youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout

幺 = 厶 : Mnemonic symbol from 幺点, ace: an ace card.

幺 = 厶 : Maud Younger is going to a poker tournament in the aorta. Before she enters, she hides an ace in her fake nose in front of the aorta.

能

néng = n + (e)ng2

surname Neng

能

néng = n + (e)ng2

can / to be able to / might possibly / ability / (physics) energy

能 = 匕 + 厶 + 月 : Mnemonic symbol: bicorne hat.

能 = 匕 + 厶 + 月 : Napoleon and the moon are fighting over who's the real Napoleon in the engine's kitchen. They both wield a ladle each. During the battle, Napoleon destroys the moon's fake nose, while the moon dents Napoleon's bicorne hat.

教

jiào = ji + ao4

surname Jiao

教

jia̅o = ji + ao1

to teach

教

jiào = ji + ao4

religion / teaching / to make / to cause / to tell

教 = 孝 + 攵 : Joan of Arc joined an apocalyptic religious sect that taught her to dig her own grave. Wearing a mourning veil, she breaks the floor of the aorta's bathroom open using a sledgehammer.

你

nǐ

们

們

men

you (plural)

你

nǐ = ni + Ø3

you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])

你 = 亻 + 尔 : Nefertiti and Rosa Luxemburg are sending you a peace dove inside the space station.

们

們

men = m + (e)n5

plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals

们 = 亻 + 门 : Rosa Luxemburg and Mahatma Gandhi are fighting on top of the Erechtheion. Rosa thinks it will be an easy win, but she didn't see the trap door in the floor yet.

好

hǎo

好

hǎo

well / carefully / nicely / properly

好

hǎo = h + ao3

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

好 = 女 + 子 : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.

好

hào = h + ao4

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

好

hǎo = h + ao3

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

好

hào = h + ao4

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

操

ca̅o

练

練

liàn

drill / practice

操

撡

ca̅o = c + ao1

old variant of 操[cao1]

操 = 喿 + 扌 : The King of Chu is exercising in front of the aorta. He is standing on one leg, and holding a toy claw in each hand. With the toy claws, he is balancing two large cuckoo's clocks respectively.

操

ca̅o = c + ao1

to grasp / to hold / to operate / to manage / to control / to steer / to exercise / to drill (practice) / to play / to speak (a language)

操

cào = c + ao4

variant of 肏[cao4]

练

練

liàn = li + an4

to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk

练 = 纟 + 一 + 东 : Li Qingzhao (li) and the silk worm (纟) are working out (练) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They set up an Oriental Pearl Tower (东) to which they attached a huge flute (一) as horizontal beam, so that they can practice (练) pull-ups.

呢

ne = n + e5

particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?") / particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?") / particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?") / (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action / particle indicating strong affirmation

呢 = 口 + 尼 : Napoleon is holding a speech on the roof of the Erectheion on how he will rule the whole world. The Buddhist nun weighs a mandarin in her hand, and finally asks Napoleon if that also means that she has to give him this tasty mandarin.

呢

ní = ni + Ø2

woolen material

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