工
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二
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
作
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乍
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亻
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Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and Zapatista Zebra (zu) are high-fiveing in the observatory's bathroom (o4) because they're growing so awesome Mohawk (乍) haircuts.
The apocalypse has come, and archangel Gabriel (列) came down from heaven with his list (列) of people who are accepted. In the elevator's bathroom (e4) he tells Li Qingzhao (li) that she's on his list, and he tells the wicked witch (歹) that she's not. The wicked witch freaks out and takes Li Qingzhao as her hostage holding a kitchen knife (刂) to Qingzhao's throat.