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Petra Penguin (pu) is having Sputnik (普) chart the spectra (谱) he recorded draw on an advertising column (讠) in the space station (Ø3). Petra will use this information to create a musical score (谱).
Petra Penguin is really angry at the sun for heating up earth's poles. In the space station she tries to kill the sun with a combine harvester, but the sun defends itself by flinging Sputnik replicas at Petra.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
Characters with 谱 as component
谱
is not used as a component in another character.