lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
里
=
土
+
田
:
Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
雪
=
彐
+
雨
:
Xu Xian (xu) got into very bad weather in the elevator (e3). It has been snowing (雪) a lot, so everything is covered in snow. But now it is raining (雨)! Xu Xian uses a pig snout (彐) above his head to protect himself from the rain while he carefully moves on the slippery ground.
snow / CL:場|场[chang2] / (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
雪
=
彐
+
雨
:
Xu Xian (xu) got into very bad weather in the elevator (e3). It has been snowing (雪) a lot, so everything is covered in snow. But now it is raining (雨)! Xu Xian uses a pig snout (彐) above his head to protect himself from the rain while he carefully moves on the slippery ground.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
=
丨
+
凵
:
Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.