赃

stolen goods / booty / spoils

赃 = 贝 + 庄 : Zorro (z) is piercing up the crab (贝) with his rapier in front of the anglepod (ang1). He has caught it red handed (赃) with stolen goods (赃) from the farmstead (庄) next to the anglepod.

赃

贜

za̅ng = z + ang1

variant of 贓|赃[zang1]

赃 character breakdown

赃
- 庄
  - 土
    - 一
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
  - 广
    - 丿
    - 亠
      - 一
      - 丶
- 贝
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 冂
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
  - ⺆
    - 丿
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅

庄

zhua̅ng = zhu + ang1

variant of 莊|庄[zhuang1]

庄

莊

zhua̅ng = zhu + ang1

farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)

庄 = 土 + 广 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is landing with his parachute (广) next to a farmstead (庄) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He is really bad at parachuting though and lands directly in the farms dung hill (土).

贝

貝

bèi = b + ei4

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

贝 = ⺆ + 人 : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.