山
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丨
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凵
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Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
登
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癶
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豆
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To finance his adventures, Don Quixote (d) signed a sponsorship contract with a famous company producing canned beans (豆). In front of the engine ((e)ng1) he is scaling (登) a mountain of canned beans while wearing sexy nylons (癶). The character 登 depicts Don Quixote's legs (in nylons) standing on the mountain of canned beans.