无风三尺浪

lit. large waves in windless conditions (idiom) / fig. trouble arising unexpectedly

Characters and words in 无风三尺浪

not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less

= + 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: the philosopher Diogenes, who has nothing and wants nothing.

= + 𠂇 + : Just inside the space station's entrance, Diogenes is annoyed by Willy Walrus, who's playing his flute. Diogenes just wants a peaceful time without being disturbed, so he cuts the flute into pieces with a pair of scissors, and threatens to beat Willy Walrus with a shovel should he annoy Diogenes again.

Mnemonic symbol: 無爲, wu2 wei2, the state of non-doing after having attained complete harmony with the Tao.

Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.
wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster has to wait in front of the engine. Because the wind is blowing, he uses pliers to disassemble a small table and builds a shelter with the parts.
three / 3

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Cartesian coordinate system with three (三) axes.

Socrates (s-) is performing in front of the anthill (-an1). He created an electrical flute by attaching a large capacitor (二) to the flute (一), so that he can get the attention of all the ants. Moreover, he's balancing on a Cartesian coordinate system (三). Unfortunately, only three (三) ants stop to watch the performance.
one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]
a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3]

= + : Charlie Chaplin and a ghost found a big finger in the space station. They measure it using a tape-measure.
wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble

= + : In the past, waves (浪) used to break (浪) out of the anglepod's toilets (ang4) in an unrestrained (浪) way and dissipate (浪) through the while temple complex. But one day, Sir Lancelot (l) saw this misery and decided to help. He put up wave breakers (浪) which guide the waves into bottles of water (氵) so that the water can be poured back into the toilet. The high temple priest was so thankful that he gave Lancelot a thank you card (良).

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