庄

variant of 莊|庄[zhuang1]

farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)

庄 = 土 + 广 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is landing with his parachute (广) next to a farmstead (庄) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He is really bad at parachuting though and lands directly in the farms dung hill (土).

庄 character breakdown

庄
- 土
  - 一
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨
- 广
  - 丿
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶

土

tǔ = tu + Ø3

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu

土

tǔ = tu + Ø3

earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

土 = 十 + 一 : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.

广

yǎn = y + an3

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc

广

廣

guǎng = gu + ang3

surname Guang

广 = 亠 + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.

广

廣

guǎng = gu + ang3

wide / numerous / to spread

Characters with 庄 as component

脏

髒

za̅ng = z + ang1

dirty / filthy / to get (sth) dirty

脏 = 庄 + 月 : Zorro (z) and the moon (月) are mud wrestling in the farmstead's (庄) dung hill in front of the anglepod (ang1). Consequently they are very dirty (脏).

脏

臟

zàng = z + ang4

viscera / (anatomy) organ

桩

樁

zhua̅ng = zhu + ang1

stump / stake / pile / classifier for items

桩 = 木 + 庄 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) made a pile (桩) of stakes (桩) out of the Christmas trees (木) growing next to the farmstead (庄) in front of the anglepod (ang1) so that he's prepared if any vampires should try to attack him.

赃

贜

za̅ng = z + ang1

variant of 贓|赃[zang1]

赃

贓

za̅ng = z + ang1

stolen goods / booty / spoils

赃 = 贝 + 庄 : Zorro (z) is piercing up the crab (贝) with his rapier in front of the anglepod (ang1). He has caught it red handed (赃) with stolen goods (赃) from the farmstead (庄) next to the anglepod.

妆

粧

zhua̅ng = zhu + ang1

variant of 妝|妆[zhuang1]

妆 = 丬 + 女 : Bessie Coleman (女) just applied a lot of make-up (妆) in front of the anglepod (ang1), but right as she is finished Julian Giant Squid (zhu) empties a bag of sawdust (丬) over her head to show his disapproval of the thick and sticky makeup.