乾煸四季豆

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

煸

bia̅n

to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)

煸

bia̅n = bi + an1

to stir-fry before broiling or stewing

四

sì = s + Ø4

four / 4

四 = 儿 + 囗 : Mnemonic symbol: a four-leaved clover. Socrates (s) is working out in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's lifting four (四) wooden boxes (囗), and wonders why they are so heavy. He doesn't know that inside one of the four boxes, the monkey king (儿) is hiding and secretly laughing at him - until the monkey king comes out and surprises Socrates with a four-leaved clover (四).

四

sì

季

jì

four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]

季

jì = ji + Ø4

surname Ji

季 = 子 + 禾 : Joan of Arc (ji) is eating her space food in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It consists of a bowl of cereals (禾) with an egg (子) and four-season bean curd (四季豆腐).

季

jì = ji + Ø4

season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields

季 = 子 + 禾 : Joan of Arc (ji) is eating her space food in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It consists of a bowl of cereals (禾) with an egg (子) and four-season bean curd (四季豆腐).

四

sì

季

jì

豆

dòu

green bean / French bean / runner bean

豆

荳

dòu = d + ou4

variant of 豆[dou4]

豆