to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4] / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]) / cassette
卡
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上
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卜
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Protesting against capitalism in the ashram, Karl Marx (k) attaches everyone's credit cards (卡) to balloons (上) to send them up (上) and away. He happily waves with a voodoo staff (卜) as they fly away.
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish
西
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兀
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囗
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The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.
西
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兀
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囗
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Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.
莫
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艹
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日
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大
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Mnemonic symbol: 莫扎特, Mozart. Mozart (莫) is giving a concert in the observatory's bathroom (o4). He is sourroundes by sheets of artificial lawn (艹), and since there is none who (莫) is allowed to touch the lawn, it is guarded by a big robot (大). Mahatma Gandhi (m) is in the audience and in the middle of the concert he jumps on the lawn to protest against the sun (日), who is also in the audience, because the sun is responsible for draughts which threaten the farmers. In the end the robot has to carry Gandhi away.
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
夫
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二
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人
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Mnemonic symbol: a construction worker
夫
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二
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人
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In front of the space station, Neanderthal Man and a construction worker are busy exchanging a broken capacitor. When Frieda Fox floats by they whistle at her because they think she's hot, but Frieda is just annoyed.