mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
=
丨
+
凵
:
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.
梨
=
利
+
木
:
Li Qingzhao (li) crashed the Arianne rocket (利) into the space station's entrance (Ø2) and thereby caused the Christmas tree (木) to fall over. It was decorated with lots of pears (梨) which will now go bad very soon because of the dents, so Li Qingzhao has to eat them all before they go bad.