工
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二
+
丨
:
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.
silver / silver-colored / relating to money or currency
银
=
艮
+
钅
:
Maud Younger spotted a large silver sphere hanging above the entrance to the encampment. She wants to have it and repeatedly throws a golden harpoon at it; to retract the harpoon she uses a chewing gum which she attached to the harpoon, so that it expands to a long rope as she throws the golden harpoon at the silver sphere.
row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column
to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense
行
=
亍
+
彳
:
Mnemonic symbol from "to travel": seven-league boots.
Xi Shi (xi) is tired of walking with a black sneaker on her left foot (彳) and a full armor boot on her right foot (亍). Fortunately she finds seven-league boots (行) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).