下注

to pour / to pour down (of rain) / to lay a bet

Characters and words in 下注

xià = xi + a4

down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action

下 = 一 + 卜 : Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.

Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.

注

zhù = zhu + Ø4

to inject / to pour into / to concentrate / to pay attention / stake (gambling) / classifier for sums of money / variant of 註|注[zhu4]

注 = 主 + 氵 : Julian Giant Squid and the lord are very concentrated on a game they are playing in the space station's bathroom. Each of them has a bottle of water, and they are taking turns to pour the water in the other one's bottle, which is not that easy at zero gravity.

注

註

zhù = zhu + Ø4

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