非
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三
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丿
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a negative film (photography).
Frankenstein's monster (f) made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower (ei1), but now his negative (非) is a big mess. In front of the tower he set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system (三) as a tripod, and he attached a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨) to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.
洲
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州
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氵
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James II of England (zh) traveled to a new continent (洲), founded a new nation, and built a replica of the outhouse which looks exactly like the original one. To celebrate his achievements he planted a red cotton tree (州) in front of the replica outhouse (ou1). Every day, he waters it with a bottle of water (氵) to commemorate the old continent.
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
虫
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中
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厶
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Chantal Chicken and a mosquito are taking part in a dart contest just inside the engine's kitchen. The dart board is hanging in the middle of the entrance, and Chantal and the mosquito are standing to the sides. Over each of them a large fake nose is hovering: the loser will be covered in grey goose as punishment.
病
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丙
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疒
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In engine's bathroom Brunhilde is proudly inspecting her bronze medal. She got it in a contest about having the craziest sickness by painting a colorful rash on her face.