出租

to rent

Characters and words in 出租

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

出 = 屮 + 凵 : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.

出

齣

chu̅ = chu + Ø1

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

租

zu̅ = zu + Ø1

to hire / to rent / to charter / to rent out / to lease out / rent / land tax

租 = 且 + 禾 : Zapatista Zebra (zu) started a new business in front of the space station (Ø1). It consists of a shelf (且) with many cereal bowls (禾) which anyone can rent (租). So far he's very unsuccessful though, maybe because of the poor choice of his store's location.