currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon
元
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二
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儿
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Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
宀
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丶
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冖
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Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).
Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
攴
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⺊
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又
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Mnemonic symbol: a door knocker. Petra Penguin (pu) locked herself out of the space station (Ø1). She tries to get the others' attention by waving with a pennant (⺊) and knocking (攴) against the window with a boxing glove (又). Finally she uses a door knocker (攴) to knock on the door.