Mnemonic comic for 人

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Right-falling stroke

inhuman

to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity

household / the whole family

folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2] / popular art forms (cf. 陽春白雪|阳春白雪[yang2 chun1 bai2 xue3], highbrow art forms)

average person

septuagenarian

wife's father (father-in-law) / old man

three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact

(slang) threesome

If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius)

lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius) / you have sth to learn from everyone

three women makes a crowd

three women are enough for a drama (idiom)

person without identification papers, a normal residence permit or a source of income

discouraging / disheartening

not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers

(slang) to hit sb / to beat sb

lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

by oneself (without assistance) / alone (without company)

lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)