"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)
卩
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㇆
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丨
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The meaning is seal as in insignia, but instead I'm going to represent it as baby seal (the animal) in other characters. Joan of Arc (ji) is using a plow (㇆) to dig up baby seals (卩) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). As soon as they jump out of the ground she clubs them with a dinosaur bone (丨).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
㇆
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一
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亅
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Mnemonic symbol: ㇆ just looks like a plow.
Someone attached a flute to the top of a crowbar to create a new instrument. When the crowbar is bowed with a plow, the vibrations of the crowbar will transfer to the flute, which in turn is producing eerie sounds.
but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though
却
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卩
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去
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Cupid and the baby seal are fighting a war in the elevator's bathroom. Cupid shoots his arrows of love while the baby seal uses its big eyes to make everyone fall for it. However, at the moment everything is silent: Cupid and the baby seal both retreated into their concrete barrels for now.
印
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卬
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一
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Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.
to print / to mark / to engrave / a seal / a print / a stamp / a mark / a trace / image
印
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卬
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一
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Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.
archaic variant of 節|节[jie2]: knot, node / joint / segment / link / ...
卪
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卩
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丶
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Joan of Arc (ji) wants to make the baby seals (卩) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) even cuter, so she fastens petal leaves (丶) to the ears of the seals using pretty knots (卪).
丽
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一
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卩
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丶
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Li Qingzhao and a baby seal are making each other beautiful in the space station's bathroom. Li Qingzhao helps the baby seal apply Mascara with a flute, while the baby seal paints Li Qingzhao's monobrow with a petal leaf.
丽
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一
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卩
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丶
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This character looks like someone with a monobrow used too much Mascara.
Marie Curie (xi) bought some lunch-to-go (𦈢), but in the elevator's bathroom (e4) she trips and pours her lunch over the barrier (𦈢). Normally she would use cotton pads (卸) to remove (卸) the mess, but since she doesn't have them, she uses a baby seal (卩) instead.