Mnemonic comic for 埋

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu

earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

variant of 裡|里[li3]

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

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

to bury

to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush

to complain / to grumble (about) / to reproach / to blame

to bury / to hide by burying / hidden

to bury

to immerse oneself in / engrossed in sth / to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain) / countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)

to engulf / to bury / to overlook / to stifle / to neglect / to fall into oblivion

to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work

to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth

to install (water pipes, landmines etc) underground

Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2])

center-embedded relative clauses

to immerse oneself in (one's work, studies etc)

(web analytics) event tracking / event

to crush and bury

lit. to blame the heavens and reproach the earth / fig. to rave and rant

to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese) / (fig.) to bear responsibility

to conceal one's identity / to live incognito

(dialect) dirty / to mock sb

sunken cord (used in bookbinding)