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).
燥
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喿
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火
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Zorro (z) suffers from constipation (燥) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), so he concocts a traditional Chinese medicine. He puts a cuckoo's clock (喿) in a desiccator (燥) and starts a fire (火) under it to dry (燥) the clock.
剂
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刂
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齐
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Joan of Arc (ji) is preparing a dose (剂) of her medicine in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Usually she uses a gong as a nice and flat surface to prepare her medicine, but today only the drum is ready (齐). She distributes her medicine evenly and nicely on the flat surface using a kitchen knife (刂).