寄

jì = ji + Ø4

to send / to mail / to entrust / to depend on / to attach oneself to / to live (in a house) / to lodge / foster (son etc)

寄 = 奇 + 宀 : Joan of Arc (ji) mails (寄) home a present from the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She decided to mail a cappuccino (奇) in a graduation cap (宀).

寄 character breakdown

寄
- 奇
  - 可
    - 丁
      - 一
      - 亅
    - 口
  - 大
    - 一
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
- 宀
  - 丶
  - 冖

奇

ji̅ = ji + Ø1

odd (number)

奇

qí = qi + Ø2

strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually

奇 = 可 + 大 : Mnemonic symbol: cappuccino (卡布奇诺)

The Queen of Hearts (qi) craves a cappuccino (奇) just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2), and the robot (大) has one in his robot hands. He will give it to the Queen of Hearts under one weird (奇) condition: she shall prove that she's worth to receive the cappuccino by sitting on a bed of nails (可). The Queen agrees and pretends to be in much vain, but really she's just pretending since there is no gravity in the space station.

宀

mián = mi + an2

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

宀 = 丶 + 冖 : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).

Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.