毛出在羊身上

lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid. / Nothing comes for free.

Characters and words in 毛出在羊身上

毛

máo = m + ao2

surname Mao

毛

máo = m + ao2

hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])

毛 = 丿 + 二 + 乚 : Mahatma Gandhi finally found a way to get some hair again: Just inside the aorta's kitchen, he used a shovel to dig up several Cartesian coordinate systems. He rejoices, because finally his dream of being a punk once again can finally come true.

毛 = 丿 + 二 + 乚 : Mahatma Gandhi finally found a way to get some hair again: Just inside the aorta's kitchen, he used a shovel to dig up several bananas. Using a charged capacitor, he fuses them to his head.

出

chu̅ = chu + Ø1

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

出 = 屮 + 凵 : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.

出

齣

chu̅ = chu + Ø1

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

在

zài = z + ai4

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

在 = 一 + 亻 + 土 : Zorro (z) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) exist (在) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Rosa is in the middle of balancing a flute (一) on her head and on a pile of clay (土). Zorro uses his rapier to inscribe "Z" into the flute, so as to mark that the pronunciation of "在" begins with "z".

羊

yáng = y + ang2

surname Yang

羊

yáng = y + ang2

sheep / goat / CL:頭|头[tou2],隻|只[zhi1]

羊 = 丫 + 三 : Maud Younger is looking for gender equality just inside the anglepod's kitchen—and a dowsing rod is her tool of choice. A sheep sees this and imitates her, using a Cartesian coordinate system as a dowsing rod substitute.

身

she̅n = sh + (e)n1

body / life / oneself / personally / one's morality and conduct / the main part of a structure or body / pregnant / classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset / Kangxi radical 158

身 = 自 + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a bodysuit.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) tries on his new bodysuit (身) in front of the encampment ((e)n1). To see himself better in his hand mirror (自), he uses a banana (丿) as a selfie stick.

身

she̅n

上

shang

on the body / at hand / among

上

shǎng = sh + ang3

used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]

上

shàng = sh + ang4

(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above

上 = 丨 + 二 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) investigates a mysterious murder in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Somebody has been killed while using the golden squat toilet. He finds a mysterious apparatus on top (上) of it, and breaks it open using a dinosaur bone (丨). As the apparatus breaks, he finds the murderer's weapon: The dinosaur bone is sticking in a capacitor (二), which has been hooked up to the golden squat toilet to kill the victim using the lethal electric charge.

上 = 一 + 丄 : Mnemonic symbol: as in the movie "Up", someone will be using lots of balloons to send something on a long journey. Sherlock Holmes (sh) prepares to take off in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). He fixed a lot of balloons (上) to a flute (一), on which he plans to sit during his journey. At this moment the flute is only held back by the 90 degree corner clamp (丄) which is fixing it to the ground.