山中無老虎,猴子稱大王

in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom) / (depending on the source, the last word is either 大王[da4 wang2] or 大王[dai4 wang5])

Characters and words in 山中無老虎,猴子稱大王

surname Shan
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
China / Chinese / surname Zhong
within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a dart board, because you always try to hit the center.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu-) is throwing dinosaur bones (丨) as darts on a dart board in front of the engine ((e)ng1). To make it a bit more difficult he's throwing mandarins (口) into the air as well and skewers them up right in the center (中 is a mandarin skewered on a dinosaur bone) in mid flight with the dinosaur bones. He's still able to consistently hit the center (中) of the dart board.
to hit (the mark) / to be hit by / to suffer / to win (a prize, a lottery)
not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less

= + 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: the philosopher Diogenes, who has nothing and wants nothing.

= + 𠂇 + : Just inside the space station's entrance, Diogenes is annoyed by Willy Walrus, who's playing his flute. Diogenes just wants a peaceful time without being disturbed, so he cuts the flute into pieces with a pair of scissors, and threatens to beat Willy Walrus with a shovel should he annoy Diogenes again.

Mnemonic symbol: 無爲, wu2 wei2, the state of non-doing after having attained complete harmony with the Tao.

Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

= + : Lancelot (l) is showing his respect to grandpa (老) in the aorta's living room (ao3). He's bowing deep and offering a crown (⺹), but grandpa refuses by hitting Lancelot on the head with a ladle (匕).
tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is trying once more to get some nice stripes (虍). This time she is lying on the tiger's (虎) small table (几) to have him tattoo the stripes on her body in the space station (Ø3).
monkey / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Hamlet (h) and a monkey (猴) are watching a huge portrait of the marquis (侯) holding a dachshund (犭) on his lap in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Hamlet recognizes the murderer of his father in him an shakes his fist at him, while the monkey mocks him by making funny faces and sticking out his tongue.
monkey / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

= + : Zorro wants to eat an egg in the space station, and he already put it in a prize cup, as he has no egg cup. He also lacks a spoon, so he uses a big flute to crush the egg open.
(noun suffix)
to fit / balanced / suitable
to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise

= + : Charlie Chaplin practices eating cereals blindfolded in front of the engine. As he is eating he wonders why the bowl is suddenly so heavy. The reason is that a peace dove sat down on the bowl and eats the cereals as well. The peace dove names Charlie Chaplin a real idiot because he doesn't notice.
variant of 秤[cheng4] / steelyard
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.
king / magnate / person having expert skill in something
robber baron (in opera, old stories) / magnate
surname Wang
king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).
to rule / to reign over

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