qǐng
sha̅o
děng
piàn
kè
 
 
dài
wǒ
qián
qù
qǐ
zòu
Please wait a moment. Wait for me to announce your arrival.
to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request

= + : The Queen of Hearts set up a fountain of youth right in the middle of the engine. She invites everyone to take a sip and even set up an advertising column to motivate the visitors to come and try it.
to wait a moment
somewhat / a little

= + : The little prince (肖) and Sherlock Holmes (sh) got their ration of cereals (禾) in front of the aorta (ao1). Because the little prince is so little (稍), he only got a little bit (稍) of cereals.
see 稍息[shao4 xi1]
class / rank / grade / equal to / same as / to wait for / to await / et cetera / and so on / et al. (and other authors) / after / as soon as / once

= + : Inside of the engine, Don Quixote is praying in front of a Buddhist shrine. He brought a bamboo stick as offer, and he lighted it at the very top. Now he's waiting for the stick to burn down so he can go home. However, the stick is very long: Don Quixote will have to wait for a long time.
short period of time / a moment
disk / sheet
thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91

Mnemonic symbol: a DVD. Pocahontas secretly sells DVDs in the anthill's bathroom.
quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an engraver.

The boar cannot believe it when it meets Karl Marx in the elevator's bathroom! Bewildered it asks for an autograph but has nothing except for a kitchen knife and an engraver. It takes Karl Marx a quarter of an hour to engrave his message in the kitchen knife: "Dear boar, keep on fighting capitalism! Yours, Karl."
to stay

= + : In front of the airplane someone devoted huge black sneakers to the local buddhist shrine. Don Quixote fits into them with his whole body and the sneakers are so cozy that he thinks he could stay like this forever.
to wait / to treat / to deal with / to need / going to (do sth) / about to / intending to
I; me; my

= + : I (我) find Willy Walrus (w) lying motionless in the observatory's living room (o3), and there's a dagger-axe (戈) sticking right in his chest. I (我) try to pull it out while wearing a baseball glove (手).
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

= + : The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a front panel.
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: The "nose" part (厶) can be seen as an arm, which goes through "earth" (土), and this reminds me of some protesters who lock themselves (or their arms, to be specific) to concrete barrels. Cupids dirt capsule could also be a concrete barrel. So in other characters, I'm going to represent 去 by a concrete barrel.

Cupid (qu) is trying to send himself to earth. In the bathroom of the space station (Ø4), he has prepared a capsule made of dirt (土). He's wearing his lucky fake nose (厶) when entering the capsule.
to submit a report to the king / to talk to the king
variant of 啟|启[qi3]

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is informing (启) every member on the space station that from now on she has to be greeted with 启奏万岁 whenever someone wants to see her in the space station (Ø3). Furthermore, anyone visiting her has to bring a mandarin (口) as a present. She writes this rules down in orange on a wooden swinging door (户) so that no-one forgets.
variant of 啟|启[qi3]

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is informing (启) every member on the space station that from now on she has to be greeted with 启奏万岁 whenever someone wants to see her in the space station (Ø3). Furthermore, anyone visiting her has to bring a mandarin (口) as a present. She writes this rules down in orange on a wooden swinging door (户) so that no-one forgets.
Qi son of Yu the Great 禹[Yu3], reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝[Xia4 Chao2] (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is informing (启) every member on the space station that from now on she has to be greeted with 启奏万岁 whenever someone wants to see her in the space station (Ø3). Furthermore, anyone visiting her has to bring a mandarin (口) as a present. She writes this rules down in orange on a wooden swinging door (户) so that no-one forgets.
to open / to start / to initiate / to enlighten or awaken / to state / to inform

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is informing (启) every member on the space station that from now on she has to be greeted with 启奏万岁 whenever someone wants to see her in the space station (Ø3). Furthermore, anyone visiting her has to bring a mandarin (口) as a present. She writes this rules down in orange on a wooden swinging door (户) so that no-one forgets.
to play music / to achieve / to present a memorial to the emperor (old)

= 𡗗 + : Zorro (z) receives a guest in the Louver's bathroom (ou4), an angel (天). The angle sits down and folds his hands (𡗗) while Zorro is playing music (奏) on his whip.