resources / capital / to provide / to supply / to support / money / expense
资
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次
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贝
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Zorro (z) has become a real capitalist (资). In front of the space station (Ø1) he locked a crab (贝) into a cube (次). Whenever he throws organic waste into the cube, the crab is so furious that it cuts the carbage to really small pieces and throws it out. Zorro then collects the cut garbage and sells it as organic fertilizer.
to give birth / to reproduce / to produce / product / resource / estate / property
产
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厂
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立
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Mnemonic symbol: an assembly belt. Can you see the vase soon falling off the assembly belt?
In anthill, Charlie Chaplin is setting up his assembly line. At the one end there is a supply of vases. In the middle of the assembly line, a chocolate factory fills chocolate into the vases. At the other end, the little vases with the chocolate are dumped into a large vase.
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲
离
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亠
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凶
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禸
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Mnemonic symbol: from 离心机 or 离心分离机, a centrifuge.
离
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亠
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凶
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禸
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Li Qingzhao is about to leave the space station. As a souvenir she put her beret in the space station's centrifuge and got a demon mask out. Angrily she tramples on the demon mask because what she wanted was a nice and modern hat.