(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above
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Sherlock Holmes (sh) investigates a mysterious murder in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Somebody has been killed while using the golden squat toilet. He finds a mysterious apparatus on top (上) of it, and breaks it open using a dinosaur bone (丨). As the apparatus breaks, he finds the murderer's weapon: The dinosaur bone is sticking in a capacitor (二), which has been hooked up to the golden squat toilet to kill the victim using the lethal electric charge.
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Mnemonic symbol: as in the movie "Up", someone will be using lots of balloons to send something on a long journey. Sherlock Holmes (sh) prepares to take off in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). He fixed a lot of balloons (上) to a flute (一), on which he plans to sit during his journey. At this moment the flute is only held back by the 90 degree corner clamp (丄) which is fixing it to the ground.
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Rosa Luxemburg visits Willy Walrus in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He sits in his place--an armchair--like a king, and Rosa presents him a vase.
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Guy Fawkes celebrates Christmachrist in the airplane's bathroom with a Christmas tree as a team of four horses arrive. Guy Fawkes, not being too familiar with the traditions of Christmachrist, thinks that these must be the four kings which will give him the presents—at least he thinks that this is what he approximately heard. He should have thought twice, as the four horses are not four kings, but the four horses of the apocalypse.
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Guy Fawkes celebrates Christmachrist in the airplane's bathroom with a Christmas tree as a team of four horses arrive. Guy Fawkes, not being too familiar with the traditions of Christmachrist, thinks that these must be the four kings which will give him the presents—at least he thinks that this is what he approximately heard. He should have thought twice, as the four horses are not four kings, but the four horses of the apocalypse.
to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])