預產期

预 = 予 + 页 : Yu the Great and Zai Yu are preparing their tax reports in advance in the space station's bathroom. Yu the Great is scribbling wildly on one sheet of paper after the other, and sheets of paper are flying all over the place. Zai Yu on the other hand just fell asleep and covered himself in a lot of sheets of paper. He covered himself with a sheet he made out of paper.

产 = 厂 + 立 : 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.

期 = 其 + 月 : Recently the Queen of Hearts (qi) has become an astronomer. In front of the space station (Ø1) she sits on top of a watchtower (其) and watches the moon (月). From the moon's movement around the tower she wants to calculate its period and phase (期). She didn't consider though that not only the moon is orbiting around her, she is also orbiting the moon.

期 = 其 + 月 : Recently the Queen of Hearts (qi) has become an astronomer. In front of the space station (Ø1) she sits on top of a watchtower (其) and watches the moon (月). From the moon's movement around the tower she wants to calculate its period and phase (期). She didn't consider though that not only the moon is orbiting around her, she is also orbiting the moon.