to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
开
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一
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廾
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A bottle opener. Karl Marx is sitting in front of the airplane, begging for money. He's playing a flute and has his bottle opener ready for the next beer, but unfortunately, he'll be carried away, his hands cuffed, soon.
国
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囗
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玉
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Mnemonic symbol: a nation's flag. Let's say the Chinese flag.
In the observatory's kitchen (o2) Gitta Giraffe (gu) is practising her ballet performance. She got a whole crate (囗) full of jade bracelets (玉) and flags (国) and fixed one flag to each jade bracelet. This makes a perfect combination for throwing the ring with the flag waving behind it and catching the ring again after a few pirouettes.
功
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力
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工
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Gitta Giraffe (gu) practices her Kung Fu skills (功) in front of the engine ((e)ng1) with a sparring robot made out of steel beams (工). The robot is programmed to fight Kung Fu (功), but Gitta Giraffe's Kung Fu is better: she hits the robots power button (力) and turns it off.
臣
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巨
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a very humble servant.
Charlie Chaplin (ch) has become one of Leshan Buddha's (巨) servants. Together with another servant (臣), He massages the buddha's foot with a dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2).
臣
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巨
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a very humble servant.
Charlie Chaplin (ch) has become one of Leshan Buddha's (巨) servants. Together with another servant (臣), He massages the buddha's foot with a dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2).