氵
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⺀
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㇀
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Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
翟
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羽
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隹
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In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) James II of England (zh) gives a present to Herbert Allen Giles (翟) for his contributions to the Wade-Giles system, a long-tail pheasant. As Herbert receives the bird he finds that it is just a sparrow (隹) with long feathers (羽) attached.
翟
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羽
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隹
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Dorothy Gale (di) helps the sparrow (隹) to put on a costume in the space station's entrance (Ø2). She attaches very long feathers (羽) to the sparrows tail so that he looks like a long-tail pheasant (翟).