nǐ
shì
shén
me
rén
 
 
nǐ
lái
gàn
shén
me
Who the hell are you? What are you doing here?
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])

= + : Nefertiti and Rosa Luxemburg are sending you a peace dove inside the space station.
variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".

Sherlock Holmes (sh) starts his day in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) with a mug of coffee (旦). Holding a skull (mnemonic symbol for 是) in his hands, he asks himself "to be, or not to be" (是). He wonders if he can make the skull come back to life using lots of coffee, and injects coffee from his mug into the skull using a syringe (龰).

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".

Sherlock Holmes (sh) watches the Neanderthal Man (人) trying to climb to the sun (日) on a ladder (下) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Sherlock is afraid that he'll open the window, so he puts on a big skull (是) and scares him off.
who? / what (kind of) person?
what? / something / anything
what
ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc) / assorted / miscellaneous
exclamatory final particle
interrogative final particle
suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc

= 丿 + : 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.
variant of 麼|么[me5]

= 丿 + : 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.
surname Yao
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

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

= : 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.
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).
to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Sir Lancelot (l) is visiting the mailwoman (來) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2). As a gift, he brought a Christmas tree (木) decorated with rubber chicken (从).

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Lancelot (l) is super happy that his inflatable crocodile (丷) and live size Ai Weiwei (未) puppet finally arrived (来). The mailwoman (来) delivered them straight to the kitchen of the airplane (ai2).
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
old variant of 乾|干[gan1]

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
variant of 乾|干[gan1]

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed

= + : Guy Fawkes is doing some workout in the anthill's bathroom. He's lifting a flute in the one hand and a cross in the other.
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder