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).
to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from
打
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丁
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扌
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Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.
雷
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田
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雨
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Sir Lancelot (l) has to clear a mine (雷) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) in the rain (雨). It is raining so hard, when Lancelot hears the thunder (雷) he doesn't know if it's the weather or a mine he triggered.
雷
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田
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雨
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Sir Lancelot (l) has to clear a mine (雷) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) in the rain (雨). It is raining so hard, when Lancelot hears the thunder (雷) he doesn't know if it's the weather or a mine he triggered.
thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine / (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
不
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丆
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卜
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Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action
下
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一
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卜
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Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.
Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.
雨
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下
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丶
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冂
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It is raining inside of the space station, and because of zero gravity, it is raining in every direction. Yu the Great can't just hide under a ladder covered with petal leaves, she also has to tug herself in a few maps.