唇亡齿寒

lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent

Characters and words in 唇亡齿寒

lip

= + : Chantal Chicken (chu) celebrates her birthday in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) with a birthday cake (辰) made of mandarins (口). As she eats the cake her whole lips (唇) get orange (口) with cake.
variant of 唇[chun2]

= + : Chantal Chicken (chu) celebrates her birthday in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) with a birthday cake (辰) made of mandarins (口). As she eats the cake her whole lips (唇) get orange (口) with cake.
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased

= + : Willy Walrus (w) just finished digging a grave (亡) for his dead relatives who were killed in the Arctic in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Exhausted, he sticks the shovel (乚) in the earth and puts his beret (亠) on it. Finally, he sets up the tombstone (mnemonic symbol for 亡).
old variant of 亡[wang2]

= + : My mnemonic for 亡 is a tombstone, so this ancient variant gets to be a sarcophagus.

Willy Walrus (w) has to bury the Neanderthal man (人) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The Neanderthal man (人) is lying in a half open sarcophagus (亾) next to Willy, and Willy uses a shovel (乚) to dig the grave.
tooth / CL:顆|颗[ke1]

齿 = + + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) has an aching tooth (齿), and Neanderthal Man (人) is about to help him take it out using an electrical barrier (止) in the space station (Ø3). They attached the barrier to the tooth and as Neanderthal Man will plug it into the receptacle (凵), the barrier will pull out the tooth.
cold / poor / to tremble

= + + + + : After the nuclear war the nuclear winter (寒) followed, and now the well (井) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) is frozen (寒). Hamlet (h) first puts a graduation cap (宀) over the well to protect it from radioactive fallout, then he breaks the ice by throwing a big eightball (八) into the well. Finally he is able to suck up some fresh water using a flute (一), although he discovers that under the ice beautiful blossoms (⺀) have grown.

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