to tie / to bind / classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle / Taiwan pr. [zha2]
扎
=
乚
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扌
:
Zorro (z) unearthed a bundle of flowers in front of the ashram (a1) using a shovel (乚), and now he's binding (扎) them into a bundle using a toy claw (扌).
square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively
格
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各
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木
:
Guy Fawkes (g) is decorating a Christmas tree (木) just inside the elevator's kitchen (e2). He uses lots of stars (各) to frame (格) the tree and put it in a better light.
gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift
罗
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夕
+
罒
:
Lenny Lemur wanted to catch a few bats with a net hang high across the observatory's kitchen. Instead, two bats catch him in a roll of gauze in a fly-by manoeuvre.
Roth, Ross, Rose or Rossi (name) / Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察[Ren2 quan2 Guan1 cha2] / Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯[Ji1 fu3 Luo2 si1])
斯
=
其
+
斤
:
In front of the space station, Socrates is in a peculiar situation. The sphinx, who is sitting on top of a watch tower, posed him a riddle and dares him to solve it. Should he fail he has to lift barbells for the rest of his life in the tower.
斯
=
其
+
斤
:
In front of the space station, Socrates is in a peculiar situation. The sphinx, who is sitting on top of a watch tower, posed him a riddle and dares him to solve it. Should he fail he has to lift barbells for the rest of his life in the tower.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
=
丨
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凵
:
Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
arteries and veins / vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
脉
=
月
+
永
:
Mahatma Gandhi (m) is getting married to the moon (月) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The moon puts a diamond ring (永) on Gandhi's finger which is so tight that Gandhi's arteries and veins (脉) are getting all bound off.