difference; discrepancy / (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction) / (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
差
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工
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羊
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Charlie Chapling is juggling steel beams in front of the ashram. A sheep is making an error bar graph representing Charlie's number of tries to juggle as long as possible without letting the beams fall down.
工
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二
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
羊
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丫
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三
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Maud Younger is looking for gender equality just inside the anglepod's kitchen—and a dowsing rod is her tool of choice. A sheep sees this and imitates her, using a Cartesian coordinate system as a dowsing rod substitute.
磋
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差
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石
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Kitty Cat (cu) is going to give a presentation at a meeting in front of the observatory (o1). To improve her presentation she is polishing (磋) her error bars (差) with a stone (石).
to rub or roll between the hands or fingers / to twist
搓
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差
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扌
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Kitty Cat (cu) is examining error bars (差) in front of the observatory (o1). She rubs (搓) and rolls (搓) the error bars with a toy claw (扌) to see if it easily breaks.