dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
Guy Fawkes (g) is drying (干) his clothes in front of the anthill (an1). He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross (十) and a flute (一). Waiting for his clothes to dry, he snacks dried fruit (mnemonic symbol for 干).
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) retreated to the top of the ashram (a5) to start another hunger strike. Soon the 喇嘛 climbs to the top as well using a hemp (麻) rope, hands him a mandarin (口) and asks him what the hell he is doing (干嘛).