to begin / to initiate / to inaugurate / to start / to create
创
=
仓
+
刂
:
Chantal Chicken (chu) is the founder (创) of a new startup in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). She doesn't have much money yet, so she rented a barn (仓) to work in. Day in, day out she is producing (创) innovative kitchen knives (刂), and they already start to pile up in front of the barn.
伤
=
亻
+
𠂉
+
力
:
Sherlock Holmes hurt himself when he got struck by one of the traps in front of the anglepod. Luckily Rosa Luxemburg passes by: she has the key to unlock the power button of the trap system and turns it off, so that Sherlock can free himself.
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后
=
⺁
+
𠮛
:
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.
heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
心
=
乚
+
丶
:
Marie Curie (xi) uses a shovel (乚) to dig a hole in front of the encampment ((e)n1). She wants to bury her heart (心). To the side are three petal leaves (丶), with which she wants to cover it afterwards.
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up
理
=
王
+
里
:
Li Qingzhao and Martin Luther King have the mission to find out the intrinsic order and inner essence of sunflowers in the space station. They grow a few sunflowers and care for them very meticulously, talking to them and everything.
to press / to push down / to keep under (control) / pressure
压
=
厂
+
丶
+
土
:
Maud Younger once heard that if you apply enough pressure, one can make diamonds out of dirt. In front of the ashram, she tries this out: She puts some dirt into a chocolate factory, applies as much pressure as she can, but all that comes out are petal leaves.
Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money / to tighten
紧
=
収
+
糸
:
In the encampment Joan of Arc is very tense to finally open her present. It is a radio receiver which has been tightly packed in fine silk. Finally when she's finally allowed she urgently opens the package.
to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes
张
=
弓
+
长
:
Mnemonic symbol: a spreadsheet. James II of England (zh) practices his archery skills in front of the anglepod (ang1). Riding on a longboard (长) he shoots arrows using his composite bow (弓) trying to hit a spreadsheet (张).
综
=
宗
+
纟
:
In front of the engine ((e)ng1) Zapatista Zebra (zu) is working hard on putting together (综) a live silk worm (纟). He already has a model silk worm standing on a table next to his blackboard (宗), on which he sums up (综) all the protein folds he would need to synthesize (综) the silk worm.
to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]
合
=
亼
+
口
:
Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Hamlet is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin and glued a pointed cap to its top using a tube of glue.
合
=
亼
+
口
:
Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Hamlet is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin and glued a pointed cap to its top using a tube of glue.
症
=
正
+
疒
:
The stick figure (正) is visiting James II of England (zh) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) to have him investigate his colorful rash (疒). Unfortunately James II of England has to tell him that he has cancer (症).