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kuài
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As matters stand, please capture the monkey and punish him severely.
as matters stand / things having reached this stage
matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

= 𠮛 + + : Mnemonic symbol: The thing.

= 𠮛 + + : 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.
to (a place) / until (a time) / up to / to go / to arrive / (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)

= + : Don Quixote has been waiting at the arrivals conveyor belt in the aorta's bathroom for way too long, but finally his new kitchen knife arrived.
to reach; to arrive / to leave for; to go to / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) / considerate; thoughtful; thorough
nowadays / now
as / as if / such as

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Asif ibn Barkhiya, according to the Qur'an, throne hauler at the court of king Salomon.

= + : Just inside the space station's entrance, Asif ibn Barkhiya, Rachel Rhinoceros and Bessie Coleman are playing monkey, throwing a mandarin as if they were little kids.
now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)

= + : A rip off calendar showing today's date: 今

= + : Joan of Arc has changed into half-duck half-human being and lives in a tipi in front of the encampment. With her beak, she shows a rip off calender with the date of Armageddon: today.
rapid / quick / speed / rate / soon / almost / to make haste / clever / sharp (of knives or wits) / forthright / plainspoken / gratified / pleased / pleasant

= + : Karl Koala made the mistake to have asked the crystal ball in the airplane's bathroom about his future. After he has seen his fate he quickly and angrily destroys the crystal ball with a flail.
to hold / to contain / to grasp / to take hold of / handle / particle marking the following noun as a direct object / classifier for objects with handle / classifier for small objects: handful

= + : A grappling hook. Beelzebub was just enjoying his lollipop in the ashram. Because he was afraid of his hand being too sticky, he used a toy claw to hold the lollipop. Now he's crying like a baby because somebody used a grappling hook to steal his lollipop right from his hand.
handle
to hold; to grasp / to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate / handlebar / classifier: handful, bundle, bunch / classifier for things with handles / (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})
surname Na
surname Nuo
variant of 哪[na3]
that / those / then (in that case) / commonly pr. [nei4] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing

= + + : The emperor is wielding a sword with a capacitance, because it's electrical. So in other characters this will be a laser sword.

= + + : Napoleon is practising with his laser sword in the ashram's bathroom, in the case that he will be released from this prison. Then he'll be ready to take on the world.
(archaic) many / beautiful / how / old variant of 挪[nuo2]
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 grab / to catch / to arrest / to snatch / to scratch

= + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) morphed into a new superhero form: he has claws (爪) on each tentacle and is additionally wielding several toy claws (扌). He wants to catch (抓) every criminal on earth this way, and he starts in front of the ashram (a1).
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).
to execute / the law
first month of the lunar year
straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a stick-figure with straight lines. James II of England (zh) really has to use the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4), but there's a stick-figure (正) blocking the stalls with a barrier (止). The stick-figure measures with a flute (一) whether James is tall enough to go. James stands very straight (正) to make himself as tall as possible.
variant of 法[fa3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
France / French / abbr. for 法國|法国[Fa3 guo2] / Taiwan pr. [Fa4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
law / method / way / to emulate / (Buddhism) dharma / (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists / (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
old variant of 法[fa3] / law

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.