使

to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger

使 = 亻 + 吏 : Sherlock Holmes, Rosa Luxemburg and the space station's clerk play a simultaneous game of rock paper scissors in the space station, as they have to decide who will be sent as a messenger back to earth to admit that they need another 3 000 000 000 $ funding.

使 character breakdown

使
- 亻
  - 丨
  - 丿
- 吏
  - 丈
    - 一
    - 乂
      - 丿
      - ㇏
  - 口

亻

rén = r + (e)n2

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

亻 = 丿 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).

吏

lì = li + Ø4

minor government official or functionary (old)

吏 = 丈 + 口 : Li Qingzhao finds the space station's clerk making out with Bigfoot in the bathroom, and she's pretty jealous, so she throws mandarins at them to disturb them.