to stop / to cease / to dismiss / to suspend / to quit / to finish
罢
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去
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罒
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Beelzebub (b) is on a strike (罢) in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He is not a Sissy though, so he locked his arms in a concrete barrel (去) hanging right under the floor in a net (罒) so he is hard to get at. He will shout at anyone who wants to use the toilet until his demands are fulfilled.
了
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乛
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亅
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Sir Lancelot (l) has completed (了) his preparations to fight the world. There he stands ready, on top of the Elevator (e5), with a sickle (乛) and a crowbar (亅) in his hands.
to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly
了
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乛
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亅
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Mnemonic symbol from "to finish" and the shape of the character: a prize cup.
Li Qingzhao (li) is responsible for manufacturing a prize cup (了). She only needs to add a poetic engraving. Unfortunately, she suffers from a writer's block. In the aorta's living room (ao3), someone left a cryptic message engraved on the walls using a sickle (乛), which is still lying on the floor. Being an accomplished poet Li Qingzhao is able to understand the message clearly (了), realizes its poetic potential and starts to engrave it on the prize cup using a crowbar (亅).