to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
宰
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宀
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辛
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Zorro (z) is preparing a terrible kind of kimchi (辛) in the airplane (ai3). He is slaughtering livestock (宰) and collecting it together with the kimchi in a huge, turned-over graduation cap (宀).
杀
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乂
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朩
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Sherlock Holmes (sh) is messing around with a sewage pipe sticking out of the floor (朩) in front of the ashram (a1) using pliers (乂). To reduce (杀) the marks he left he is trying to rub them off with an eraser (杀).