reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China)
kind / type / class / category / similar / like / to resemble
类
=
大
+
米
:
Lancelot (l) wants to save mankind (类), so he plans to breed the perfect rice plant. To find the perfect seed he programmed a robot (大) to classify (类) every corn of a sack of rice (米) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) so he can choose the best one.
book / letter / document / CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] / to write
书
=
丨
+
㇆
+
丶
:
Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is enjoying a good book (书) in front of the space station (Ø1). Because he is lazy, he built a thingy to hold the pages in place with a dinosaur bone (丨) and two plows (㇆). He is laying very comfortable on a petal (丶) serving as sofa.