prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
老
=
⺹
+
匕
:
Lancelot (l) is showing his respect to grandpa (老) in the aorta's living room (ao3). He's bowing deep and offering a crown (⺹), but grandpa refuses by hitting Lancelot on the head with a ladle (匕).
孙
=
孑
+
小
:
Susan Saint Bernard (su) was lucky enough to catch and eat a mosquito (孑) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but two weeks later, the mosquito's grandson (孙) comes to fight Susan Saint Bernard and avenge the death of his grandfather. Susan Saint Bernard is a little embarrassed and offers a daisy (小) as peace offering.
孙
=
孑
+
小
:
Susan Saint Bernard (su) was lucky enough to catch and eat a mosquito (孑) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but two weeks later, the mosquito's grandson (孙) comes to fight Susan Saint Bernard and avenge the death of his grandfather. Susan Saint Bernard is a little embarrassed and offers a daisy (小) as peace offering.
straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive
正
=
一
+
止
:
Mnemonic symbol: a stick-figure with straight lines. James II of England (zh) really has to use the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4), but there's a stick-figure (正) blocking the stalls with a barrier (止). The stick-figure measures with a flute (一) whether James is tall enough to go. James stands very straight (正) to make himself as tall as possible.
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.
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
to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
进
=
井
+
辶
:
Joan of Arc fell into a well after she entered the encampment's bathroom, but luckily one of her gladiator sandals got stuck on one toilet, so now she can use the string to climb out of the well.
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)
去
=
厶
+
土
:
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 play / to have fun / to trifle with / toy / sth used for amusement / curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]) / to keep sth for entertainment
玩
=
元
+
王
:
Martin Luther King asks Willy Walrus for the entrance fee for tonight's concert just inside the anthill's kitchen. Willy Walrus makes fun out of snatching away the coin again just when Martin is about to grab it. When he finally gives it to Martin Luther King, Martin finds out that it's just a toy chocolate coin.
玩
=
元
+
王
:
Martin Luther King asks Willy Walrus for the entrance fee for tonight's concert just inside the anthill's kitchen. Willy Walrus makes fun out of snatching away the coin again just when Martin is about to grab it. When he finally gives it to Martin Luther King, Martin finds out that it's just a toy chocolate coin.
儿
=
丿
+
乚
:
Mnemonic symbol: "son" (儿) sounds similar to "Sun" like in "Sun Wu Kong", so it's gonna be represented by the monkey king. Albert Einstein (Ø-) and Sun Wu Kong (儿) are fighting in the space station's kitchen (-Ø2). Their weapons: Albert Einstein has a shovel (乚), and Sun Wu Kong has a banana (丿).