吐鲁番

吐

tǔ

鲁

魯

lǔ

番

fa̅n

Turpan City in Xinjiang (Chinese: Tulufan)

Characters and words in 吐鲁番

吐

tǔ = tu + Ø3

to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)

吐 = 口 + 土 : Tommy Turtle is spitting mandarins at a dusty, muddy earth from inside the space station.

吐

tù = tu + Ø4

to vomit / to throw up

吐 = 口 + 土 : Tommy Turtle (tu) ate too many mandarins (口) in the space station. He can't help but vomit (吐) until he produced a muddy pile of mandarins (口) in the bathroom (Ø4).

鲁

魯

lǔ = lu + Ø3

surname Lu / Lu, ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lu3 guo2] / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]

鲁 = 日 + 鱼 : Mnemonic symbol: 布鲁图斯, Brutus, one of the murderers of Caesar.

Lenny Lemur (lu) is helpless to watch Brutus (鲁) slyly murder the sun (日) in the space station (Ø3) using a fish (鱼) as a dagger.

鲁

魯

lǔ = lu + Ø3

(bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)

番

pa̅n = p + an1

surname Pan

番

fa̅n = f + an1

foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort

番 = 田 + 釆 : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is growing tomatoes (番) from a foreign country (番) on a field (田) in front of the anthill (an1). From time to time he uses a sampling tool (釆) to draw some ketchup (番) to see if the tomatoes are ready yet.