乾淨俐落

dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

干 = 一 + 十 : Mnemonic symbol: dried fruit.

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).

干

乾

ga̅n

净

淨

jìng

clean / neat

净

淨

jìng = ji + (e)ng4

clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role

净 = 争 + 冫 : The grim reaper (争) is very annoyed by Joan of Arc (ji) eating popsicle after popsicle (冫) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). She does not take care at all and repeatedly messes up the floor which the grim reaper has to clean (净) again and again.

俐

lì = li + Ø4

clever

俐 = 亻 + 利 : Because Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and Li Qingzhao (li) are so clever (俐) they were able to rebuild the Arianne rocket (利) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

俐

lì

落

luo

variant of 利落[li4 luo5]

落

là = l + a4

to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind

落

lào = l + ao4

colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds

落

luò = lu + o4

to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement

落 = 艹 + 洛 : Lenny Lemur tried to grow some artificial lawn in the observatory's bathroom, but to no avail. He even put up a star for the light and provided bottled water, but the artificial lawn didn't grow. To make matters worse, the star is about to fall into the bathroom's well.

Words with 乾淨俐落

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