abbr. for Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1 ke4 lan2] / surname Wu
乌
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丶
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马
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The Town Musicians of Bremen are practising in front of the space station. From bottom to top: A beautiful unicorn, Willy Walrus, a black crow and a petal leaf.
乌
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丶
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马
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The Town Musicians of Bremen are practising in front of the space station. From bottom to top: A beautiful unicorn, Willy Walrus, a black crow and a petal leaf.
拉
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扌
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立
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In front of the ashram, sir Lancelot tries to make some music using a fiddlestick and a vase by bowing along the opening of the vase. Maybe he would be successful if he put down that silly toy claw.
尔
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⺈
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小
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Mnemonic symbol derived from the components: a peace dove. Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to send a message of peace to earth from the space station's living room (Ø3). He wanted to give a dove (尔) a daisy (小) so that it can bring it to earth, but the dove is late! Albert has no choice but to give it to a passing crane (⺈) instead. Thus, the crane flies to earth with the daisy in his beak, just like a peace dove.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
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丨
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凵
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Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
arteries and veins / vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
脉
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月
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永
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) is getting married to the moon (月) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The moon puts a diamond ring (永) on Gandhi's finger which is so tight that Gandhi's arteries and veins (脉) are getting all bound off.