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).
瘦
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叟
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疒
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Sherlock Holmes (sh) and the old gentleman (叟) have been locked into the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) to be in quarantine for the very colorful rash (疒) they developed. Because of their sickness they already lost a lot of body weight and are very thin (瘦).