to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)
含
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今
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口
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Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).
待
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寺
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彳
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In front of the airplane someone devoted huge black sneakers to the local buddhist shrine. Don Quixote fits into them with his whole body and the sneakers are so cozy that he thinks he could stay like this forever.
to put / to place / to release / to free / to let go / to let out / to set off (fireworks)
放
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攵
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方
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In the anglepod's bathroom, Frankenstein's monster crushes a square to pieces using a sledgehammer. He puts the pieces into the toilet and releases them afterwards by flushing it.