勾心鬥角

to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined

Characters and words in 勾心鬥角

surname Gou

= + : The elephant (勹) has Guy Fawkes (g) draw (勾) a cartoon (勾) of him in front of the outhouse (ou1). He told Guy to make his trunk prettier, so instead of a trunk Guy draws a big fake nose (厶).
to attract / to arouse / to tick / to strike out / to delineate / to collude / variant of 鉤|钩[gou1], hook

= + : The elephant (勹) has Guy Fawkes (g) draw (勾) a cartoon (勾) of him in front of the outhouse (ou1). He told Guy to make his trunk prettier, so instead of a trunk Guy draws a big fake nose (厶).
see 勾當|勾当[gou4 dang4]
heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

= + : 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.
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a 斗牛士 is a matador, who will represent 斗.

= + : In the outhouse, the matador and Don Quixote started to fight. Now they want to settle it once and for all in the bathroom. The matador chose a cross as a weapon, while Don Quixote chose a blossom—to cushion the crosses' blows.
surname Jue
angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Joan of Arc finds a hurt crane in a corner inside of the aorta. The crane hurt itself with a sharp horn earlier, which is now lying in another corner. Joan of Arc pulls out her first aid kit and administers first aid.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a horn.
role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale

= + : Zeus is practising his theatre role just inside the elevator's kitchen: he's gonna play the dying swan. A crane flies by and sees him, thinking Zeus is really dying, and instantly starts administering first aid with a first aid kit he coincidentally carried around.

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