one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
言
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亠
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二
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口
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Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
既
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旡
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艮
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Mnemonic symbol: the saying 一言既出,驷马难追 means "lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept". Thus, I'll represent this character with a team of four horses.
Joan of Arc made a bet with a team of four horses that she'd be able to chew 20 chewing gums at once. After stuffing ten of them into her mouth she's already chocking, but what has been said cannot be retracted by a team of four horses.
to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
出
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屮
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凵
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Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.
难
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又
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隹
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Just inside the anthill's kitchen, Napoleon and a sparrow are trying to beat an insanely difficult video game. After playing and failing all day long Napoleon finally loses his temper and crashes the game wearing two boxing gloves.
to chase / to pursue / to look into / to investigate / to reminisce / to recall / to court (one's beloved) / to binge-watch (a TV drama) / retroactively / posthumously
Julian Giant Squid stole the bounty hunter's gladiator sandals, and now the bounty hunter chases Julian Giant Squid. In front of the Eiffel Tower, Julian Giant Squid found no better hideout than a stashed filing cabinet in which he hides.