紅杏出牆

红
紅
杏
杏
出
出
墙
牆
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover

Characters and words in 紅杏出牆

红
紅
hóng = hu + (e)ng2
surname Hong
红
紅
hóng = hu + (e)ng2
red / popular / revolutionary / bonus
红 = 工 + 纟 : Mnemonic symbol: a little red book.

Helga Horse (hu) is reading the little red book (红) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2), when she discovers that it is being eaten by a silk worm (纟). She overreacts a little and wants to beat the silk worm with a steel beam (工).
杏
xìng = xi + (e)ng4
apricot / almond
出
chu̅ = chu + Ø1
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 = 屮 + 凵 : 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.
出
齣
chu̅ = chu + Ø1
variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
墙
牆
qiáng = qi + ang2
wall / CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]
墙 = 啬 + 土 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) and the stingray (啬) got married and took over the anglepod to start a new kingdom. In the kitchen (ang2) they start building their city wall (墙) out of lots of dirt (土). They also add lots of thorns to make the wall as stingy (墙) as possible.

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