mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
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丨
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凵
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Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
狮
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师
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犭
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Sherlock Holmes (sh) took his dachshund (犭) to the dog teacher (师) in front of the space station (Ø1). The dog teacher has a lion (狮) and shows Sherlock how to make a lion out of his dachshund.