負

fù = fu + Ø4

to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)

负 = ⺈ + 贝 : Mnemonic symbol: an opossum (负鼠) who carries her babies on her back.

A few pals practice their cosplay on the space station's bathroom. They want to reenact the town musicians of Bremen, and so Frieda Fuchs stands at the bottom, the crab is on top of Frieda, the crane is on top of the crab, the opossum is on top of the crane, and the opossum carries her babies on her back.

負 character breakdown

負
- 貝
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 目
    - 二
      - 一
    - 囗
- ⺈

贝

貝

bèi = b + ei4

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

贝 = ⺆ + 人 : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

⺈

Character component without intrinsic meaning

I think this looks like a crane; to the left is its wing, and to the right its head.

Characters with 負 as component

妇

媍

fù = fu + Ø4

old variant of 婦|妇[fu4]

妇 = 女 + 彐 : Frieda Fox (fu) and Bessie Coleman (女), both being women (妇), do women's stuff in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), such as throwing fake pig noses (彐) at each other.

赖

賴

lài = l + ai4

surname Lai

赖 = 束 + 负 : Sir Lancelot (l) and the Dalai Lama (赖) have been trapped in the airplane's bathroom (ai4) for several weeks now. The only food they have is an opossum (负) once in a while, but because the Dalai Lama is not allowed to kill them, he depends on (赖) Lancelot to do it for him. Once the opossum is dead they grill it on a bundle of firewood (束).

赖

賴

lài = l + ai4

to depend on / to hang on in a place / bad / to renege (on promise) / to disclaim / to rat (on debts) / rascally / to blame / to put the blame on

偩

fù = fu + Ø4

to rely on / to resemble

負

負 character breakdown

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