一夫當關，萬夫莫開

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.

夫

fu̅ = fu + Ø1

husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

夫 = 二 + 人 : Mnemonic symbol: a construction worker

夫 = 二 + 人 : In front of the space station, Neanderthal Man and a construction worker are busy exchanging a broken capacitor. When Frieda Fox floats by they whistle at her because they think she's hot, but Frieda is just annoyed.

夫

fú = fu + Ø2

(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

当

當

da̅ng = d + ang1

to be / to act as / manage / withstand / when / during / ought / should / match equally / equal / same / obstruct / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / right / just at

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

当

當

dàng = d + ang4

at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)

关

關

gua̅n = gu + an1

mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve

关 = 丷 + 天 : A mean crocodile (丷) is chasing Gitta Giraffe (gu) in front of the anthill (an1). It almost caught up, when an angel (天) appears and pushes its off button (mnemonic symbol for 关) to save Gitta Giraffe.

万

萬

wàn = w + an4

surname Wan

万

萬

wàn = w + an4

ten thousand / a great number

万 = 丆 + ㇆ : As mnemonic symbol I choose a neuron, since each neuron is said to connect to 10000 others.

万 = 丆 + ㇆ : Willy Walrus needs to dig up the floor in the anthill's bathroom, but he is tired of doing so manually with a plough. To make his life easier, he sets up a wind wheel for electricity, connects a neuron to the wind wheel and the plough to transmit the electricity and uses his new DIY electric plough to dig much faster.

莫

mò = m + o4

surname Mo

莫

mò = m + o4

do not / there is none who

莫 = 艹 + 日 + 大 : Mnemonic symbol: 莫扎特, Mozart. Mozart (莫) is giving a concert in the observatory's bathroom (o4). He is sourroundes by sheets of artificial lawn (艹), and since there is none who (莫) is allowed to touch the lawn, it is guarded by a big robot (大). Mahatma Gandhi (m) is in the audience and in the middle of the concert he jumps on the lawn to protest against the sun (日), who is also in the audience, because the sun is responsible for draughts which threaten the farmers. In the end the robot has to carry Gandhi away.

开

開

ka̅i = k + ai1

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

开 = 一 + 廾 : A bottle opener. Karl Marx is sitting in front of the airplane, begging for money. He's playing a flute and has his bottle opener ready for the next beer, but unfortunately, he'll be carried away, his hands cuffed, soon.

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