Mandarinbanana

hǎo = h + ao3

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

好 = 女 + 子 : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.

好

hào = h + ao4

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

好

hǎo = h + ao3

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

好

hào = h + ao4

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

啊

a̅ = Ø + a1

interjection of surprise / Ah! / Oh!

啊 = 口 + 阿 : Auntie was supposed to meet Albert Einstein in front of the ashram, but Albert is nowhere to be seen. There is just a huge mandarin lying around. After auntie has waited for a long time, she finally decides to peel the mandarin. As she peels of the first piece, Albert Einstein jumps out of the mandarin, shouting "阿姨! Surprise!" Auntie in turn just screams "啊" in surprise as she swiftly suffers from a heart attack.

啊

á = Ø + a2

interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer / Eh? / what?

啊

ǎ = Ø + a3

interjection of surprise or doubt / Eh? / My! / what's up?

啊

à = Ø + a4

interjection or grunt of agreement / uhm / Ah, OK / expression of recognition / Oh, it's you!

啊

a = Ø + a5

modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent

我

wǒ = w + o3

I; me; my

我 = 戈 + 手 : 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).

叫

jiào = ji + ao4

to shout / to call / to order / to ask / to be called / by (indicates agent in the passive mood)

叫 = 丩 + 口 : Joan of Arc rushes into the aorta's bathroom with a mandarin on a roast fork and shouts that the mandarins are ready to be picked up.

叫

呌

jiào = ji + ao4

variant of 叫[jiao4]

叫 = 丩 + 口 : Joan of Arc rushes into the aorta's bathroom with a mandarin on a roast fork and shouts that the mandarins are ready to be picked up.

你

nǐ

好

hǎo

hello / hi

你

nǐ = ni + Ø3

you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])

你 = 亻 + 尔 : Nefertiti and Rosa Luxemburg are sending you a peace dove inside the space station.

好

hǎo

好

hǎo

well / carefully / nicely / properly

凉

涼

liáng

快

kuai

nice and cold / pleasantly cool

凉

涼

liáng = li + ang2

凉 = 京 + 冫 : It is a hot summer day. To keep cool (凉), Li Qingzhao (li) hides in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) just wearing underpants (京) and enjoying popsicles (冫).

凉

涼

liáng = li + ang2

cool / cold

凉 = 京 + 冫 : It is a hot summer day. To keep cool (凉), Li Qingzhao (li) hides in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) just wearing underpants (京) and enjoying popsicles (冫).

凉

涼

liàng = li + ang4

to let sth cool down

快

kuài = ku + ai4

rapid / quick / speed / rate / soon / almost / to make haste / clever / sharp (of knives or wits) / forthright / plainspoken / gratified / pleased / pleasant

快 = 夬 + 忄 : Karl Koala made the mistake to have asked the crystal ball in the airplane's bathroom about his future. After he has seen his fate he quickly and angrily destroys the crystal ball with a flail.

舒

shu̅

服

fu

comfortable / feeling well

舒

shu̅ = shu + Ø1

surname Shu

舒

shu̅ = shu + Ø1

to stretch / to unfold / to relax / leisurely

舒 = 予 + 舍 : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) helps Zai Yu (予) relax in front of the space station (Ø1) by stretching (舒) his back over a pawn (舍). Zai Yu thinks that stretching like that is really 舒服.

服

fú = fu + Ø2

clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes

服 = 𠬝 + 月 : Just inside the space station's entrance, Frieda Fox and the moon are playing a little game. They are ordering each other what to wear and the other person has to obey. Frieda orders the moon to wear a neat little tutu, and the moon orders Frieda to wear a princess' dress. After they've changed they can't stop laughing at each other.

服

fù = fu + Ø4

classifier for medicine: dose / Taiwan pr. [fu2]

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