秧

shoots / sprouts

秧 = 禾 + 央 : In front of the anglepod (ang1) Maud Younger (y) wants to create even more anglepods, and she wants to do so very efficiently. She plants one shoot (秧) in a bowl of cereals (禾) and connects a CPU (央) to monitor the growth.

秧 character breakdown

秧
- 央
  - 冂
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
  - 大
    - 一
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
  - ⺆
    - 丿
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
- 禾
  - 丿
  - 木
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨

央

ya̅ng = y + ang1

center / end / to beg / to plead

央 = ⺆ + 大 : Mnemonic symbol: 中央处理机, central processing unit (CPU).

In front of the anglepod, Maud Younger received her new robot. Soon she is not satisfied with his artificial intelligence; to increase it, she staples a CPU to the center of its chest, although the robot begs her not to do so.

禾

hé = h + e2

cereal / grain

禾 = 丿 + 木 : Mnemonic symbol: a bowl of cereals.

Hamlet (h) made himself a bowl of cereals (禾) with bananas (丿) and Christmas trees (木) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.