back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后
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⺁
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𠮛
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Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish
西
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兀
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囗
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The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.
西
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兀
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囗
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Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.
游
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斿
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氵
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Maud Younger (y) is swimming (游) through a sea of scallops (斿) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Because it is very exhausting, she often has to take a sip from her water bottle (氵).
Journey to the West, Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature / also called Pilgrimage to the West or Monkey
"Journey to the West", Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩[Wu2 Cheng2 en1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, also called "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey"
to record / to note / to memorize / to remember / mark / sign / classifier for blows, kicks, shots
记
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己
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讠
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In the space station's bathroom, Joan of Arc sees an advertisement on an advertising column. There are some butcher's hooks advertised which she thinks will be useful on her quest against the king of England, so she takes a voice memo to remind herself to obtain some of the butcher's hooks.