诗
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寺
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讠
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Just in front of the space station (Ø1) Sherlock Holmes (sh) suffers a head lesion By bumping his head on a Buddhist shrine (寺). "Don't you drink anymore wine!" Is written on an advertisement pole (讠): "Better follow our Buddha's role!" "How can drinking wine be a crime?" Sherlock, rubbing his head, has to whine. "I shall return back to my home, I'm already annoyed by this little poem. (诗)"
Buddhist temple / mosque / government office (old)
寺
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土
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寸
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Socrates (s) built a Buddhist temple (寺) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). To protect it from being destroyed while floating around in zero gravity, he built a protective frame made out of mud (土) around it. After finishing it he inspects it and thinks "thumbs up" (寸), because he is proud of his work.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
Characters with 诗 as component
诗
is not used as a component in another character.