大处着眼，小处着手

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

大 = 一 + 人 : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.

处

處

chǔ = chu + Ø3

to reside / to live / to dwell / to be in / to be situated at / to stay / to get along with / to be in a position of / to deal with / to discipline / to punish

处

處

chù = chu + Ø4

place / location / spot / point / office / department / bureau / respect / classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point

处 = 卜 + 夂 : Mnemonic symbol: a spotlight

处 = 卜 + 夂 : Chantal Chicken has found the perfect spot for her performance. In the space station's bathroom she puts on her high heels, sets up the voodoo staff, turns on the spotlight and practices her voodoo pole dance in this protected location.

着

著

zha̅o = zh + ao1

(chess) move / trick / all right! / (dialect) to add

着

著

zháo = zh + ao2

to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in

着 = 目 + 羊 : In the aorta's kitchen (ao2), James II of England (zh) has first contact (着) with the sheep's (羊) wool. He is so amazed by the feeling that he can't stop cuddling with the sheep and finally falls asleep (着). Unfortunately the Eye of Providence (目) watches all of it and is so jealous that it catches fire (着).

着

著

zhe = zh + e5

aspect particle indicating action in progress

着 = 目 + 羊 : James II of England (zh) cuddles with the sheep (羊) also on the roof of the aorta (e5), and again the Eye of Providence (目) catches fire (着) out of jealousy as it watches the action in progress(着).

着

著

zhuó = zhu + o2

to wear (clothes) / to contact / to use / to apply

着

著

zhuó

眼

yǎn

to have one's eyes on (a goal) / having sth in mind / to concentrate

眼

yǎn = y + an3

eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1] / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)

眼 = 目 + 艮 : Inside of the anthill, Maud Younger played a prank on the Eye of Providence. She told it that she would apply a mask to alleviate the wrinkles around its eyes, but instead she just covered its whole eye with chewing gum.

小

xiǎo = xi + ao3

small / tiny / few / young

小 = 八 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).

着

著

zhuó

手

shǒu

to put one's hand to it / to start out on a task / to set out

手

shǒu = sh + ou3

hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

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