人为财死，鸟为食亡

人
人
为
為
财
財
死
死
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，
,
鸟
鳥
为
為
食
食
亡
亡
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich

Characters and words in 人为财死，鸟为食亡

人
rén = r + (e)n2
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
人 = 丿 + ㇏ : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).
人
人
为
為
artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort
为
為
wéi = w + ei2
as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
为
為
wèi = w + ei4
because of / for / to
为 = ⺀ + 力 : This one looks like a bird with crazy hair, and when I googled "bird with crazy hair", wow was I amazed how many birds with crazy hair there are! Penguins are birds with crazy hair! So let's use a penguin for this character.
为 = ⺀ + 力 : The crazy hair penguin wants to use the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, but because Willy Walrus just finished it stinks like hell. The first thing crazy hair penguin does is to press the button to release a heap of blossoms to make the air breathable again.
为
爲
wéi = w + ei2
variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do
为
爲
wèi = w + ei4
variant of 為|为[wei4]
为
爲
wéi = w + ei2
variant of 為|为[wei2]
财
財
cái = c + ai2
money / wealth / riches / property / valuables
财 = 才 + 贝 : The King of Chu found a big money bag in the airplane's kitchen, but he knows that there is no free lunch. Carefully, he scans the content of the bag with his X-ray power vision, and inside the bag, he finds a crab waiting to strike on its prey.
死
sǐ = s + Ø3
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
死 = 匕 + 歹 : Shakespeare is scared to death when suddenly a witch attacks him with her ladle in the space station.
鸟
鳥
diǎo = di + ao3
variant of 屌[diao3] / penis
鸟
鳥
niǎo = ni + ao3
bird / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2] / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn
Nefertiti tries to fend off a turkey in the aorta.
食
shí = sh + Ø2
to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse
食 = 亽 + 艮 : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of instant noodles.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) went camping in the space station's bathroom (Ø2). As foodstuffs he brought chewing gum (艮) and instant noodles (食), but he forgot to bring his gas stove, so in front of his tipi (亽) He is eating chewing gums all day.
食
sì = s + Ø4
to feed (a person or animal)
亡
wáng = w + ang2
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased
亡 = 乚 + 亠 : Willy Walrus (w) just finished digging a grave (亡) for his dead relatives who were killed in the Arctic in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Exhausted, he sticks the shovel (乚) in the earth and puts his beret (亠) on it. Finally, he sets up the tombstone (mnemonic symbol for 亡).
亡
亾
wáng = w + ang2
old variant of 亡[wang2]
亾 = 乚 + 人 : My mnemonic for 亡 is a tombstone, so this ancient variant gets to be a sarcophagus.

Willy Walrus (w) has to bury the Neanderthal man (人) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The Neanderthal man (人) is lying in a half open sarcophagus (亾) next to Willy, and Willy uses a shovel (乚) to dig the grave.

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