to hand over / to deliver / to pay (money) / to turn over / to make friends / to intersect (lines) / variant of 跤[jiao1]
交
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亠
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父
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Linus Pauling, a famous scientist with a beret. Father Time commands Linus Pauling to hand over his beret to him in front of the aorta, but Joan of Arc comes to his rescue.
小
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八
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亅
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Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.
Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
姐
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且
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女
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Bessie Coleman (女) and Joan of Arc (ji) have been searching through an ancestry archive for days and days. Inside of the elevator (e3) they stand in front of a shelf (且) which contains thousands of ancestry records, and after they worked very hard, they found out that through some complicated lineage they are older sisters (姐) to each other.