按下葫蘆浮起瓢

按
按
下
下
葫
葫
芦
蘆
浮
浮
起
起
瓢
瓢
solve one problem only to find another cropping up

Characters and words in 按下葫蘆浮起瓢

按
àn = Ø + an4
to press / to push / to leave aside or shelve / to control / to restrain / to keep one's hand on / to check or refer to / according to / in the light of / (of an editor or author) to make a comment
按 = 安 + 扌 : Inside of the anthill's bathroom, Einstein safety-belt base-jumped off of the bathroom stall, but got stuck halfway. Now he tries to push the safety-belt's button at the top of the stall with the help of a long toy claw.
按
下
to press down / to press a button
下
xià = xi + a4
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action
下 = 一 + 卜 : Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.

Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.
葫
hú = hu + Ø2
Allium scorodoprasum / bottle gourd
葫 = 艹 + 胡 : Helga Horse (hu) is growing bottle gourd (葫) on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). For Halloween she decorates the plants with Confucius-style beards (胡).
葫
葫
芦
蘆
calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) / hoist / generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof) / muddled / (poker) full house
芦
蘆
lú = lu + Ø2
rush / reed / Phragmites communis
芦 = 艹 + 户 : Lenny Lemur (lu) is growing reed (芦) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). His garden has a nice wooden swinging door (户) and the soil consists of shredded artificial lawn (艹).
浮
fú = fu + Ø2
to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus
浮 = 孚 + 氵 : Ever since Frieda Fox (fu) got her wedding ring (孚) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) she's been floating around (浮) like on clouds. She even got drunk by only drinking a bottle of water (氵).
浮
起
to float / to emerge
起
qǐ = qi + Ø3
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
起 = 己 + 走 : The Queen of Hearts is bored in the space station and plays a game involving a nordic walking pole and butcher's hooks. She uses the nordic walking pole to accelerate the hooks and fires them off once they have enough momentum.
瓢
piáo = pi + ao2
dipper / ladle

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