to kill / to murder / to attack / to weaken or reduce / to smart (dialect) / (used after a verb) extremely
杀
=
乂
+
朩
:
Sherlock Holmes (sh) is messing around with a sewage pipe sticking out of the floor (朩) in front of the ashram (a1) using pliers (乂). To reduce (杀) the marks he left he is trying to rub them off with an eraser (杀).
警
=
敬
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言
:
Joan of Arc keeps on toasting to herself inside of the engine and she got so drunk that someone called the police. The police warns her with a megaphone that she's going to be arrested if she doesn't stop, but Joan of Arc just toasts them and drinks the next shot.
猴
=
侯
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犭
:
Hamlet (h) and a monkey (猴) are watching a huge portrait of the marquis (侯) holding a dachshund (犭) on his lap in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Hamlet recognizes the murderer of his father in him an shakes his fist at him, while the monkey mocks him by making funny faces and sticking out his tongue.