年功加俸

increase in salary according to one's service record for the year (idiom)

Characters and words in 年功加俸

surname Nian

year / CL:個|个[ge4]

年 = 午 + 丨 + 一 : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.

年

秊

nián = ni + an2

grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]

功

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)

功 = 力 + 工 : Gitta Giraffe practices her Kung Fu skills in front of the engine with a sparring robot made out of steel beams. The robot is programmed to fight Kung Fu, but Gitta Giraffe's Kung Fu is better: she hits the robots power button and turns it off.

加

jia̅ = ji + a1

abbr. for Canada 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4] / surname Jia

加 = 力 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol from 加油: cheerleaders' pom poms.

加 = 力 + 口 : Joan of Arc works on her cheerleading skills in front of the ashram. For the grande finale of her performance she prepared special effects: at the very end of her performance she hits a power button on the floor with her foot, which starts mandarins shooting from her pom poms.

加

jia̅ = ji + a1

to add / plus / (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned) / to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb) / to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)

加 = 力 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol from 加油: cheerleaders' pom poms.