self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely
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目
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Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.
The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).
to follow / from / because of / due to / by / via / through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
由
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丨
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曰
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Mnemonic symbol: 自由古巴, a cuba libre. The character 由 itself even looks like a cuba libre.
Maud Younger (y) is taking part in a charity auction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). She is auctioning the dinosaur bone (丨) next to her and is speaking into a microphone (曰). In the other hand she is holding a cuba libre (由), and she is already quite drunk.
神
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申
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礻
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Sherlock Holmes wants to be near God, so he put up his monk's cowl and is just about to enter the encampment to go into retreat, his bible (the manual) in his hands.
神
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申
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礻
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Sherlock Holmes wants to be near God, so he put up his monk's cowl and is just about to enter the encampment to go into retreat, his bible (the manual) in his hands.
to resemble / to be like / to look as if / such as / appearance / image / portrait / image under a mapping (math.)
像
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亻
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象
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In anglepod's bathroom, Marie Curie and Rosa Luxemburg find a most delighting Elephant locomotive. They are so excited that they spontaneously start playing locomotive themselves, with Rosa grapping Marie's shoulders, and Marie exclaiming "choo choo" while pretending to pull a string, resembling the Elephant.
像
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亻
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象
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"Look at that elephant (象). Do you know who it looks like (像)?" Xi Shi (xi) asks Kazimierz Luxemburg in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). "No, who?" "Your aunt (亻)."