泥古不化

conservative and unable to adapt (idiom)

Characters and words in 泥古不化

mud / clay / paste / pulp

= + : Nefertiti (ni) wants to punish the Buddhist nun (尼) for not believing in her. Just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) she put the nun's feet into a bucket and added cement (泥) and a bottle of water (氵) so that the nun is restrained (泥) by the clay (泥).
restrained
stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative
surname Gu
ancient / old / paleo-

= + : Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.

Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

= + : Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
variant of 花[hua1]
to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]

= + : Helga Horse and Rosa Luxemburg conduct an experiment in the ashram's bathroom. Using a transformer, they melt a ladle.

Words with 泥古不化

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