名
=
口
+
夕
:
Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌).
Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.
满
=
两
+
氵
+
艹
:
Mahathma Gandhi stuffed the inside of the anthill with artificial lawn. Everyone is extremely annoyed by this packing, but as he sprinkles water out of a water bottle on the artificial lawn, it dawns on them: he smuggled taels of gold in the lawn, which slowly grow out of the lawn as he distributes the water and laughs happily. The whole anthill is soon full of golden taels.
满
=
两
+
氵
+
艹
:
Mahathma Gandhi stuffed the inside of the anthill with artificial lawn. Everyone is extremely annoyed by this packing, but as he sprinkles water out of a water bottle on the artificial lawn, it dawns on them: he smuggled taels of gold in the lawn, which slowly grow out of the lawn as he distributes the water and laughs happily. The whole anthill is soon full of golden taels.
天
=
一
+
大
:
Mnemonic symbol: an angel from heaven. Mother Teresa (ti) programmed a robot (大) to play a flute duet together with her in front of the anthill (an1). As they play their flutes (一) an angel (mnemonic symbol for 天) hears their heavenly tune and descends from heaven (天) to listen to them.
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action
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.