哩
=
口
+
里
:
Li Qingzhao (li) is doing research on a huge mandarin (口) in the space station (Ø3). She is planting sunflowers (里) in a complicated trajectory on the mandarin so that the length of the trajectory is exactly one mile (哩).
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc / (phonetic) / (dialect) to chat
啦
=
口
+
拉
:
Sir Lancelot (l) built a fiddle out of a hollow mandarin (口) and strokes it using a fiddlestick (拉). He is busking in front of the ashram (a1) playing his fiddle and chanting (啦) loudly, hoping to make some money.