earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]
地
=
也
+
土
:
Dorothy Gale (di) hates the cleanliness of the space station, so she used an excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to dig a pile of dirt (土) out of the ground (地) for a mud bath.
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.
钱
=
戋
+
钅
:
The Queen of Hearts has become paranoid recently and thinks all the world wants her money. She hid all her money inside of a floating tank in the anthill's kitchen and guards it with a golden harpoon.
coin / money / CL:筆|笔[bi3] / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]
钱
=
戋
+
钅
:
The Queen of Hearts has become paranoid recently and thinks all the world wants her money. She hid all her money inside of a floating tank in the anthill's kitchen and guards it with a golden harpoon.
old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949) / (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal
farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
庄
=
土
+
广
:
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is landing with his parachute (广) next to a farmstead (庄) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He is really bad at parachuting though and lands directly in the farms dung hill (土).