城門失火，殃及池魚

城
城
门
門
失
失
火
火
，
，
,
殃
殃
及
及
池
池
鱼
魚
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee

Characters and words in 城門失火，殃及池魚

城
chéng = ch + (e)ng2
city walls / city / town / CL:座[zuo4],道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
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城 = 土 + 成 : Again Charlie Chaplin is unable to exit engine. There is a wall of dirt blocking the entrance, and a progress bar showing that it will be removed soon, but the bar seems to be stuck.
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城
城
门
門
city gate
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
surname Men
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门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
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Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.
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失
shi̅ = sh + Ø1
to lose / to miss / to fail
Add a new mnemonic for 失 = 丿 + 夫
Add a new mnemonic for 失 = 𠂉 + 大
失 = 𠂉 + 大 : Sherlock (sh) locked himself out of the space station (Ø1)! He lost (失) his key (𠂉)! After he was floating in front of the space station for an eternity, a robot (大) came by with a lost+found box (失) which contained his lost key.
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失
火
to catch fire; to be on fire
火
huǒ = hu + o3
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
Add a new mnemonic for 火 = 人 + 丶
火 = 人 + 丶 : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).
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殃
ya̅ng = y + ang1
calamity
Add a new mnemonic for 殃 = 央 + 歹
殃 = 央 + 歹 : Maud Younger (y) found that the wicked witch (歹) destroyed her CPU (央) in front of the anglepod (ang1). It's a real calamity (殃) for her!
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殃
及
to bring disaster to
及
jí = ji + Ø2
and / to reach / up to / in time for
Add a new mnemonic for 及 = ㇏ + 乃
及 = ㇏ + 乃 : Mnemonic symbol: Chinese General 宇文化及 (yu3 wen2 hua4 ji2) from the seventh century.
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及 = ㇏ + 乃 : Just inside the space station's entrance a poltergeist is harassing Joan of Arc and Yuwen Huaji by pointing with his fingers at them.
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池
chí = ch + Ø2
pond / reservoir / moat
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鱼
魚
yú = yu + Ø2
surname Yu
Add a new mnemonic for 鱼 = ⺈ + 田 + 一
鱼
魚
yú = yu + Ø2
fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]
Add a new mnemonic for 鱼 = ⺈ + 田 + 一
鱼 = ⺈ + 田 + 一 : Yu the Great set up a small rice field just inside the entrance of the space station, and there are some fish swimming in the rice field. The space station's crane spotted them and wants to snap one out of the rice field, but just as he was about to snatch one of them, Yu the Great hit him with a flute.
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