紧张状态

紧 = 収 + 糸 : In the encampment Joan of Arc is very tense to finally open her present. It is a radio receiver which has been tightly packed in fine silk. Finally when she's finally allowed she urgently opens the package.

张 = 弓 + 长 : Mnemonic symbol: a spreadsheet. James II of England (zh) practices his archery skills in front of the anglepod (ang1). Riding on a longboard (长) he shoots arrows using his composite bow (弓) trying to hit a spreadsheet (张).

状 = 丬 + 犬 : Julian Giant Squid plays fetch with the St Bernard in the anglepod's bathroom, but just as he throws a piece of wood it disintegrates into a cloud of sawdust. The St Bernard dog is very annoyed and accuses Julian Giant Squid of having it done on purpose to tease him.

态 = 太 + 心 : The empress dowager (太) asks Tecumseh (t) about his attitude (态) towards her in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Tecumseh isn't sure himself and samples his hearts (心) on a scale from 1 to 10 with one bin per integer. After N is large enough, he sees that his attitude forms a Gaussian distribution (态) with a mean of 6.