足
=
龰
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口
:
Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.
龰
=
⺊
+
人
:
Neanderthal man (人) accidentally pierced his foot with a pennant (⺊). Now he'll have to get an injection against tetanus. This character will thus be represented by a syringe.
urgent / hurried / to urge / to promote / to urge haste / close / intimate
促
=
亻
+
足
:
Kitty Cat (cu) is urging (促) Rosa Luxemburg (亻) into buying her last 8326 footballs (足), stating again and again that this is a special opportunity that will not come back anytime soon and so on. Indeed she already talked her into a corner in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
to rub against / to walk slowly / (coll.) to freeload
蹭
=
足
+
曾
:
The firefly (曾) is too lazy to fly on its own. To get to the other side of the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) it is freeloading (蹭) by hanging on to a football (足) thrown by the King of Chu (c).
to kick / to play (e.g. soccer) / (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
踢
=
⻊
+
易
:
Mother Teresa (ti) was unable to solve a very easy puzzle (易) in front of the space station (Ø1). Angrily she kicks (踢) the puzzle out of orbit with her big cowboy boot (⻊).
跤
=
足
+
交
:
Linus Pauling (交) tries to catch a football (足) thrown to him by Joan of Arc (ji) in front of the aorta (ao1), but the throw was so hard that he tumbles and falls (跤).
踪
=
⻊
+
宗
:
In front of the engine ((e)ng1) Zapatista Zebra (zu) is walking over a blackboard (宗) wearing cowboy boots (⻊), leaving footprints (踪) all over it.
to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent
趴
=
⻊
+
八
:
Pinocchio (p) is getting hurt by something in his cowboy boot (⻊), so he has to lean forward (趴) to take it off and empty it. Indeed an eight-ball (八) falls out of the cowboy boot as Pinocchio flips it upside-down.
蹦
=
⻊
+
崩
:
Beelzebub (b) is bungee-jumping (蹦) into a cowboy boot (⻊) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) but the bungee cord is too long, so Beelzebub collapses and demises (崩).
to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce / to palpitate
跳
=
⻊
+
兆
:
Mother Teresa (ti) and the vulture (兆) are playing leapfrog (跳) inside of the aorta's bathroom (ao4) while wearing cowboy boots (⻊). They jump (跳) over each other without end.
路
=
⻊
+
各
:
In the space station's bathroom Lenny Lemur dreams of becoming a football star. He imagines walking down to earth on a road of stars, his football in his hands.
The will is there, but not the strength (idiom, from Confucian Analects). / I really want to do it, but don't have the resources. / The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.