審

to examine / to investigate / carefully / to try (in court)

审 = 宀 + 申 : Sherlock Holmes examines a murder case in the encampment. All that is left of the victim is a bloody graduation cap, and Sherlock investigates it with his magnifying glass. He pretends to compare the graduation cap to a catalogue of hats, but he's just a faker: He can't even read!

審 character breakdown

審
- 宀
  - 丶
  - 冖
- 番
  - 田
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
    - 囗
  - 釆
    - 丿
    - 米
      - 丷
      - 木
        
        八
        
        丿
        
        ㇏
        
        十
        
        一
        
        丨

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.

番

pa̅n = p + an1

surname Pan

番

fa̅n = f + an1

foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort

番 = 田 + 釆 : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is growing tomatoes (番) from a foreign country (番) on a field (田) in front of the anthill (an1). From time to time he uses a sampling tool (釆) to draw some ketchup (番) to see if the tomatoes are ready yet.

Characters with 審 as component

沈

瀋

shěn = sh + (e)n3

liquid / to pour

沈 = 冘 + 氵 : In the encampment ((e)n3) Sherlock Holmes (sh) likes to pour (沈) water from a water bottle (氵) onto a treadmill (冘) to observe how the water flows off the moving treadmill.

婶

嬸

shěn = sh + (e)n3

wife of father's younger brother

谉

讅

shěn = sh + (e)n3

to investigate / to try (in court)