打掉门牙，往肚子里咽

to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from

打 = 丁 + 扌 : Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.

打

dǎ

掉

diào

to tear down / to destroy / to dismantle (a gang) / to abort (a fetus)

掉

diào = di + ao4

to fall / to drop / to lag behind / to lose / to go missing / to reduce / fall (in prices) / to lose (value, weight etc) / to wag / to swing / to turn / to change / to exchange / to swap / to show off / to shed (hair) / (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

掉 = 卓 + 扌 : In the aorta's bathroom (ao4) Dorothy Gale (di) practices playing a banjo (卓) using two toy claws (扌), but she makes a mistake and accidentally drops (掉) the banjo. After the crash, the banjo is completely ruined.

门

門

mén = m + (e)n2

surname Men

门

門

mén = m + (e)n2

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

门

門

mén

牙

yá

incisor

牙

yá = y + a2

tooth / ivory / CL:顆|颗[ke1]

Mnemonic symbol: wisdom tooth. Maud Younger has a wisdom tooth removed just inside the ashram's kitchen.

往

wǎng = w + ang3

to go (in a direction) / to / towards / (of a train) bound for / past / previous

往 = 主 + 彳 : Willy Walrus sold a black sneaker to the Lord inside of the anglepod, but the Lord is not satisfied at all. In fact he is so unsatisfied that he kicks both Willie Walrus and the sneaker towards the door.

往

徃

wǎng = w + ang3

old variant of 往[wang3]

肚

dǔ = du + Ø3

tripe

肚

dù = du + Ø4

belly

肚 = 土 + 月 : The moon (月) made tripe out of doggy dog (du) and now his belly (肚) hurts. He has to spend the rest of the day in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) pulling a heap of dirt (土) out of his belly.

肚

dù

子

belly / abdomen / stomach / CL:個|个[ge4]

子

zǐ = z + Ø3

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-

子 = 了 + 一 : 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.

子

zi = z + Ø5

(noun suffix)

里

裏

lǐ = li + Ø3

variant of 裡|里[li3]

里

裡

lǐ = li + Ø3

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

里 = 土 + 田 : 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).

里

lǐ = li + Ø3

Li (surname)

里

lǐ = li + Ø3

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

咽

ya̅n = y + an1

narrow pass / throat / pharynx

咽

yàn = y + an4

variant of 嚥|咽[yan4]

咽 = 口 + 因 : Maud Younger (y) and René Descartes (因) are preparing to swallow (咽) a whole mandarin each (口) in the anthill's bathroom (an4).

咽

yè = y + e4

to choke (in crying)

咽

嚥