外
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夕
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卜
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There's a hole in the wall of the airplane's bathroom (ai4), and from outside (外), a bat (夕) wants to enter. Willy Walrus (w) is very afraid of bats, so he does his best to hinder the bat from entering with a voodoo staff (卜).
canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn
典
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八
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曲
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Mnemonic symbol: a head cannon. Dorothy Gale (di) is playing the harp (曲) inside the anthill's living room (an3) while shooting an eight ball (八) from her head cannon (典).
写
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冖
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与
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Marie Curie (xi) finds the sleepy black horse (与) sleeping during a party in the elevator (e3). As it is the custom, she writes (与) on the sleepy black horse's body with a white felt-tip pen. She also decorates his head with a cooking top (冖).
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works