失之毫厘,谬以千里

a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses

Characters and words in 失之毫厘,谬以千里

to lose / to miss / to fail

= 𠂉 + : Sherlock (sh) locked himself out of the space station (Ø1)! He lost (失) his key (𠂉)! After he was floating in front of the space station for an eternity, a robot (大) came by with a lost+found box (失) which contained his lost key.
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

= + Z : Mnemonic symbol: Sooo sleepy... "zZz" (the character looks like a "Z"). James II of England (zh) fell asleep in front of the space station (Ø1). He sleeps on a big petal leaf (丶), making loud "zZz" (之) sounds.
hair / drawing brush / (in the) least / one thousandth / currency unit, 0.1 yuan

= + + + : Hamlet (h) is drawing a painting just inside the aorta's kitchen (ao2). He put on an beret (亠) to look like a real painter, and he uses a cooking top (冖) as canvas for his painting. With a big hairy (毛) brush (毫) He is painting a hairy (毛) mandarin (口) in the cooking top (冖).
variant of 釐|厘[li2]

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) wants to hide her chocolate factory (厂) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) because she thinks it is ugly. Thus, around the factory she planted a sunflower (里) every other centimeter (厘).
Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀[Ai1]

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) wants to hide her chocolate factory (厂) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) because she thinks it is ugly. Thus, around the factory she planted a sunflower (里) every other centimeter (厘).
one hundredth / centi-

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) wants to hide her chocolate factory (厂) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) because she thinks it is ugly. Thus, around the factory she planted a sunflower (里) every other centimeter (厘).
to deceive / to confuse / to cheat / absurd / erroneous

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) ordered the Icarus' wings (翏) she saw on an advertising column (讠) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). As she puts the wings on and jumps from the advertising column she falls straight on the ground, only then realizing that she has been deceived (谬).
old variant of 以[yi3]
old variant of 以[yi3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.

A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

= + : So this is Neanderthal Man with a fake nose. He has bushy eyebrows, so my symbol for 以 is going to be one of these fake noses that come with additional glasses, eyebrows, and a moustache: Groucho glasses.

= + : Maud Younger and Neanderthal Man prepared some costumes for Halloween in the space station. Neanderthal Man created a big fake nose, while Maud Younger made a pair of Groucho glasses.
thousand

= 丿 + : The Queen of Hearts dropped a kilo on her banana in front of the anthill, and now she uses a cross to try and revive it.
see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
variant of 裡|里[li3]
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
Li (surname)
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

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