book / letter / document / CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] / to write
书
=
丨
+
㇆
+
丶
:
Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is enjoying a good book (书) in front of the space station (Ø1). Because he is lazy, he built a thingy to hold the pages in place with a dinosaur bone (丨) and two plows (㇆). He is laying very comfortable on a petal (丶) serving as sofa.
book or record / registry / roll / place of one's family or ancestral records / membership
籍
=
⺮
+
耤
:
Joan of Arc (ji) just arrived at the space station and has to register (籍) in the kitchen (Ø2). Her duty on the space station will be to plow a field (耤) using a bamboo stick (⺮).
