華燈初上

early evening when lanterns are first lit

Characters and words in 華燈初上

abbr. for China

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a flowery bouquet.

= + : Just inside the ashram's kitchen, Helga Horse wants to create a piece of art. She attached a lot of flowery bouquets to a cross, and wants to fuse the cross by connecting it to a transformer and thus heating it up until it melts and merges with the bouquets.
Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi / surname Hua
old variant of 花[hua1] / flower
magnificent / splendid / flowery

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a flowery bouquet.

= + : Just inside the ashram's kitchen, Helga Horse wants to create a piece of art. She attached a lot of flowery bouquets to a cross, and wants to fuse the cross by connecting it to a transformer and thus heating it up until it melts and merges with the bouquets.
light / decorated lantern
decorated lantern; lantern light
lamp / light / lantern / CL:盞|盏[zhan3]

= + : Don Quixote (d) was going for a walk in front of the engine ((e)ng1) with his lantern (灯) when it suddenly catched fire (火). He used a lantern which utilizes hydrogen, and when he accidentally ripped his lantern open at a nail (丁) on the floor, the hydrogen caught fire.
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic

= + : Back in the days when Chantal Chicken first arrived at the space station as the first junior scientist, she tried really hard to make a good first impression and put on a royal ermine coat. Just to be save she hid a cleaver behind her back just in case she wouldn't be received well.
used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) investigates a mysterious murder in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Somebody has been killed while using the golden squat toilet. He finds a mysterious apparatus on top (上) of it, and breaks it open using a dinosaur bone (丨). As the apparatus breaks, he finds the murderer's weapon: The dinosaur bone is sticking in a capacitor (二), which has been hooked up to the golden squat toilet to kill the victim using the lethal electric charge.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: as in the movie "Up", someone will be using lots of balloons to send something on a long journey. Sherlock Holmes (sh) prepares to take off in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). He fixed a lot of balloons (上) to a flute (一), on which he plans to sit during his journey. At this moment the flute is only held back by the 90 degree corner clamp (丄) which is fixing it to the ground.

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