(coll.) piece of light artillery such as a mortar / (fig.) person who speaks boldly and frankly / hot hatch (car) / (also used figuratively with various meanings in other contexts)
小
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八
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亅
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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).
钢
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冈
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钅
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Guy Fawkes (g) is looking for a steel (钢) well on a mound (冈) in front of the anglepod (ang1). Multiple times he sticks his golden harpoon (钅) into the earth until finally the liquid steel bursts out of the earth like oil out of a drill hole.
炮
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包
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火
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Pinocchio (p) plays with a cannon (炮) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He found a very colorful handbag (包) which he puts into his cannon. He then lights a match (火) and fires his cannon, shooting the handbag out of the window.