充
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亠
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允
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Mnemonic symbol: a charger for your mobile phone. Chantal Chicken (chu) has to charge her mobile phone, but the only charger (充) is outside in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Without any better option she waits outside in the cold wind for her phone to charge until she gets a runny nose (允). Lacking tissues she has to blow her nose into her beret (亠).
to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局[fen1 ju2]) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
分
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八
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刀
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Symbol for this character: A stopwatch (from the meaning "minute"). Frankenstein's monster (f) participates in the annual championship of chopping eight-balls (八) in front of the encampment ((e)n1). Using a cleaver (刀), he chops (kind of divides / separates (分)) as many eight-balls as he can in one minute (分).