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Mnemonic symbol: Cartesian coordinate system with three (三) axes. Socrates (s-) is performing in front of the anthill (-an1). He created an electrical flute by attaching a large capacitor (二) to the flute (一), so that he can get the attention of all the people. Moreover, he's balancing on a Cartesian coordinate system (三). Unfortunately, only three (三) people stop to watch the performance.
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) is driving a forklift truck (叉) in front of the ashram (a1), but he just cannot pick up all the boxing gloves (又) and petal leaves (丶) scattered around on the floor. They will always fall off the forks.