within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right
中
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丨
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口
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Mnemonic symbol: a dart board, because you always try to hit the center.
Julian Giant Squid (zhu-) is throwing dinosaur bones (丨) as darts on a dart board in front of the engine ((e)ng1). To make it a bit more difficult he's throwing mandarins (口) into the air as well and skewers them up right in the center (中 is a mandarin skewered on a dinosaur bone) in mid flight with the dinosaur bones. He's still able to consistently hit the center (中) of the dart board.
国
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囗
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玉
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Mnemonic symbol: a nation's flag. Let's say the Chinese flag.
In the observatory's kitchen (o2) Gitta Giraffe (gu) is practising her ballet performance. She got a whole crate (囗) full of jade bracelets (玉) and flags (国) and fixed one flag to each jade bracelet. This makes a perfect combination for throwing the ring with the flag waving behind it and catching the ring again after a few pirouettes.
海
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每
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氵
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Due to the runaway greenhouse effect, the oceans have risen and the airplane has been flooded. To do his daily workout, Hamlet has to do a handstand on two water bottles and do his push-ups this way.
ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
海
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每
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氵
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Due to the runaway greenhouse effect, the oceans have risen and the airplane has been flooded. To do his daily workout, Hamlet has to do a handstand on two water bottles and do his push-ups this way.
事
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𠮛
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彐
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亅
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Sherlock Holmes read a magic scroll in the bathroom of the space station. The scroll promised eternal love to anyone who reads it and wears a pig's nose while doing so, and Sherlock gave it a try. Now he summoned the thing, and he is scared to death! All he has to defend with is a crowbar. However, he never was in danger: Since he is wearing the pig snout, the thing thinks Sherlock is his mommy, and it just wants to cuddle.
局
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尸
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乛
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口
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Zeus (ju) got a job at the post office (局) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) and already at his first day a ghost (尸) approaches him. Zeus feels extremely threatened and tries to kill the ghost with a sickle (乛), but the sickle just cuts through the ghost. As the ghost is finally right in front of Zeus it produces a mandarin (口) which it wants sent to earth.
局
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尸
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乛
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口
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Zeus (ju) got a job at the post office (局) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) and already at his first day a ghost (尸) approaches him. Zeus feels extremely threatened and tries to kill the ghost with a sickle (乛), but the sickle just cuts through the ghost. As the ghost is finally right in front of Zeus it produces a mandarin (口) which it wants sent to earth.