下西洋

下 = 一 + 卜 : Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.

Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.

西 = 兀 + 囗 : The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.

西 = 兀 + 囗 : 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.

洋 = 氵 + 羊 : Maud Younger found a magical sheep just inside the anglepod's kitchen. The sheep has a water bottle out of which endlessly silver coins pour out. With the bottle the sheep already created a real ocean of foreign silver coins.