front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly
前
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䒑
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刖
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The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.
仆
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亻
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卜
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After a long day at work Petra Penguin (pu) leaves the space station (Ø1), stumbles over a voodoo staff (卜) and falls forward (仆). On earth she would just fall prostrate (仆), but in outer space she just continues tumbling on and on until Rosa Luxemburg (亻) comes to her rescue.
仆
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亻
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卜
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Petra Pinguin (pu) is acting as Rosa Luxemburg's (亻) servant (仆) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2), but because she is very sloppy, Rosa often beats her with a voodoo staff (卜).
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后
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⺁
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𠮛
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Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards
继
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乚
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米
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纟
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Joan of Arc (ji) has to watch how a sack of rice (米) falls on the silk worm (纟) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and squeezes the silk worm to death. Joan of Arc, while burying the silk worm with a shovel (乚) under a heap of rice, swears to continue (继) the silk worm's work. She will take over the silk worm's jacket and earthenware bowl (继) and continue (继) its work to build the ultimate cocoon.