kǎ
che̅
tíng
The truck stops.
truck / CL:輛|辆[liang4]
to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4] / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]) / cassette

= + : Protesting against capitalism in the ashram (a3), Karl Marx (k) attaches everyone's credit cards (卡) to balloons (上) to send them up (上) and away. He uses a voodoo staff (卜) to summon winds to carry the balloons away.
to block / to be stuck / to be wedged / customs station / a clip / a fastener / a checkpost / Taiwan pr. [ka3]
car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is parading in a cabriolet (mnemonic symbol for 车) in front of the elevator (e1), because he wants to establish his new cult. Like all successful leaders, he takes the carrot-and-stick approach: In one hand he's waving with a seven-branched laser sword (七), in the other one he's waving with a cross (十).
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)
to stop / to halt / to park (a car)

= + : Every morning Rosa Luxemburg parks her car right in front of Mother Teresa's kiosk in the engine's kitchen, and every morning Mother Teresa has the car town away.
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