Pinyin initial: "h"

旱 = 日 + 干 : Mnemonic symbol: a marmot, 旱獭 (han4 ta3).

Hamlet (h) used the drought (旱) to dry fruits (干) under the sun (日) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but the marmot (旱) secretly stole and ate all the dried fruits.

旱 = 日 + 干 : This character provides a mnemonic on its own: the sun (日) dries out (干) the land, leading to a drought (旱).

吓 = 下 + 口 : Hamlet (h) is standing on top of a ladder (下) and is threatening (吓) to jump down on the very last mandarin (口) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) should his demands not be fulfilled.

呵 = 口 + 可 : Hamlet (h) started to train to sit on a bed of nails (可) in front of the elevator (e1). After every session he treats his skin with a mandarin (口) and expels (呵) "oh my goodness!" (呵)

呵 = 口 + 可 : Hamlet (h) eats a kebab (可) in front of the elevator (e1). The kebab has the peel of a mandarin (口) instead of bread and it tastes sooo good that Hamlet expels his breath (呵) and moans "oh my goodness!" (呵)

禾 = 丿 + 木 : Mnemonic symbol: a bowl of cereals.

Hamlet (h) made himself a bowl of cereals (禾) with bananas (丿) and Christmas trees (木) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.

和 = 口 + 禾 : Hamlet (h) came up with a plan for world peace (和): He wants to end hunger once and for all by distributing cereals (禾) and mandarins (口) all over the world, starting in the elevator's kitchen (e2).

横 = 木 + 黄 : Hamlet (h) climbed on the beam (横) of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and now he is too afraid to come down again. If the Yellow Emperor (黄) doesn't want to call the fire brigade, for better or worse he'll have to climb the Christmas Tree (木) to pick Hamlet up.

焊 = 火 + 旱 : The marmot (旱) is considering to move in with Hamlet (h) and visits him in the anthill's bathroom (an4). To welcome the marmot, Hamlet is welding (焊) a steel sculpture displaying the words "to pee or not to pee!". The sparks caused by the welding set the whole anthill on fire (火) though and so the marmot runs back to its burrow.

贺 = 加 + 贝 : After Hamlet (h) won his final duel he visited the elevator's bathroom (e4), where the crab (贝) was cheering for him waving with pompoms (加) and congratulating (贺) him on his victory.

贺 = 加 + 贝 : After Hamlet (h) won his final duel he visited the elevator's bathroom (e4), where the crab (贝) was cheering for him waving with pompoms (加) and congratulating (贺) him on his victory.

何 = 亻 + 可 : In the elevator's kitchen, Rosa Luxemburg picks up the crying baby Hamlet from his bed of nails, puts him in his baby sling and tries to calm him down.

何 = 亻 + 可 : Mnemonic symbol (from "carry"): baby sling

衡 = 彳 + 鱼 + 人 + 亍 : Hamlet (h) and Neanderthal Man (人) don't know how much fish (鱼) they should have for dinner. In engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) they decide that they will settle the issue by balancing (衡) they shoes with an equal amount of fish. Hamlet commences by balancing his black sneaker (彳) with three fish. After he finished Neanderthal Man balanced his full armor boot (亍) by using nine fish.

赫 = 赤 : Hamlet (h) is getting an awe-inspiring (赫) number of two red letters (赤) per second (at a rate of two Herz (赫)) delivered in the elevator's bathroom (e4).