局促一隅

局
促
一
隅
to be cramped in a corner (idiom)

Characters and words in 局促一隅

局
侷
jú = ju + Ø2
narrow
局 = 尸 + 乛 + 口 : Zeus (ju) got a job at the post office (局) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) and already at his first day a ghost (尸) approaches him. Zeus feels extremely threatened and tries to kill the ghost with a sickle (乛), but the sickle just cuts through the ghost. As the ghost is finally right in front of Zeus it produces a mandarin (口) which it wants sent to earth.
局
jú = ju + Ø2
office / situation / classifier for games: match, set, round etc
局 = 尸 + 乛 + 口 : Zeus (ju) got a job at the post office (局) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) and already at his first day a ghost (尸) approaches him. Zeus feels extremely threatened and tries to kill the ghost with a sickle (乛), but the sickle just cuts through the ghost. As the ghost is finally right in front of Zeus it produces a mandarin (口) which it wants sent to earth.
局
侷
促
促
cramped / ill at ease
局
促
narrow (surrounding) / short (of time)
促
cù = cu + Ø4
urgent / hurried / to urge / to promote / to urge haste / close / intimate
促 = 亻 + 足 : Kitty Cat (cu) is urging (促) Rosa Luxemburg (亻) into buying her last 8326 footballs (足), stating again and again that this is a special opportunity that will not come back anytime soon and so on. Indeed she already talked her into a corner in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
一
yi̅ = y + Ø1
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
隅
yú = yu + Ø2
corner

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