mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve
关
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丷
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天
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A mean crocodile (丷) is chasing Gitta Giraffe (gu) in front of the anthill (an1). It almost caught up, when an angel (天) appears and pushes its off button (mnemonic symbol for 关) to save Gitta Giraffe.
天
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一
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大
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Mother Teresa (ti) programmed a robot (大) to play a flute duet together with her in front of the anthill (an1). As they play their flutes (一) an angel (天) hears their heavenly tune and descends from heaven to listen to them.
bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate
券
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关
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刀
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Cupid (qu) and the angel (关) found a special bond (券) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They divide it using a cleaver (刀) and each of them gets one half of the document (券).
券
=
关
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刀
:
Cupid (qu) and the angel (关) found a special bond (券) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They divide it using a cleaver (刀) and each of them gets one half of the document (券).
Inside of the engine's bathroom, the delivery girl gave a parcel to Susan Saint Bernard in passing since she can't stop her new electrical gladiator sandals. Susan Saint Bernard recognizes her demise and uses her spider-superpowers to push the off button of her sandals so that she can rest for a while.
Zheng state during the Warring States period / surname Zheng / abbr. for 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1]
郑
=
关
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阝
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James II of England (zh) and Zheng He (郑) agreed to build a pipeline (郑) connecting their nations, but it runs through the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The emperor (阝) is very annoyed by the pipeline and every time he visits the bathroom he'll push its off button (关).
拳
=
关
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手
:
Cupid (qu) trains his fist (拳) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). He just started though, so he wants to start easy and just hits a baseball glove (手) he hung on the wall. Unfortunately he hung it right over the anthill's off-button (关) so that upon his first hit the lights go out.
to soar / to gallop / to prance / to turn over / to vacate / to clear
腾
=
关
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月
+
马
:
The moon (月) is tossing from side to side (折腾) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). Tecumseh (t) is galloping (腾) by on a unicorn (马) trying to hit the moon's off-button (关).
to ally / to unite / to join / (poetry) antithetical couplet
联
=
关
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耳
:
Li Qingzhao (li) invented a machine able to combine (联) her hair into braids, and she is trying it out for the first time in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Just as the machine starts Li Qingzhao realizes it is going to combine both of her ears (耳) into one braid she quickly hits the machine's off button (关).
scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll
卷
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关
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㔾
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Zeus (ju) is about to take his final hair dresser exam. In the anthill's bathroom (an4) he reads up on how to use a hair roller (卷) machine in a thick hair dresser's volume (卷), especially on how to use the off button (关). He had a dream last night about a navy seal (㔾), but he can't quite remember what it was about.
卷
=
关
+
㔾
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Zeus (ju) is applying hair rollers (卷) to the navy seal's (㔾) hair in the anthill (an3) using a modern machine. Suddenly he looses control of the machine which goes mad, and it threatens to devour all of the seal's hair. As the navy seal is already half-bald, he manages to push the off-button (关) of the machine.
to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)
卷
=
关
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㔾
:
Zeus (ju) is applying hair rollers (卷) to the navy seal's (㔾) hair in the anthill (an3) using a modern machine. Suddenly he looses control of the machine which goes mad, and it threatens to devour all of the seal's hair. As the navy seal is already half-bald, he manages to push the off-button (关) of the machine.