white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
白
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丶
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日
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Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).
颈
=
又
+
工
+
页
:
Joan of Arc (ji) is working out in the engine ((e)ng3). She is carrying a steel beam (工) on her neck (颈) and keeps it balanced with her hands holding the beam on either side wearing boxing gloves (又). She has a sheet of paper (页) in front of her to keep track on how many squats she already did.