蒙
=
艹
+
冖
+
一
+
豕
:
Mahatma Gandhi (m) is leading a swine (豕) through the mist (蒙) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) by playing the flute (一) for her. He wants to pickle her with artificial lawn (艹) and already lifted the cooking top (冖) of his kettle.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
=
丨
+
凵
:
Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.