li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
里
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土
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田
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Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up
理
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王
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里
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Li Qingzhao and Martin Luther King have the mission to find out the intrinsic order and inner essence of sunflowers in the space station. They grow a few sunflowers and care for them very meticulously, talking to them and everything.
李
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子
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木
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In the space station, Li Qingzhao shakes a Christmas tree which is decorated with eggs. The eggs fly off and as they break open, plums fly out of them.
surname Li / abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites
礼
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乚
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礻
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Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.
礼
=
乚
+
礻
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Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.
㸚
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爻
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爻
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Mnemonic symbol: a sparse (which means most elements are zero) matrix. The character 㸚 itself looks like a matrix. Li Qingzhao (li) is developing a new notation in the space station's living room (Ø3) where she notes down a sparse matrix (㸚) using the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams (爻).
哩
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口
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里
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Li Qingzhao (li) is doing research on a huge mandarin (口) in the space station (Ø3). She is planting sunflowers (里) in a complicated trajectory on the mandarin so that the length of the trajectory is exactly one mile (哩).