徊

see 徘徊[pai2 huai2], to dither / to hesitate / to pace back and forth / irresolute

徊 = 回 + 彳 : Just inside the airplane's kitchen (ai2) Helga Horse (hu) cannot decide whether or not she should return (回) back to her hometown. She already put on her black sneakers (彳) but she keeps pacing back and forth (徊).

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徊 character breakdown

徊
- 回
  - 口
  - 囗
- 彳
  - 丿
  - 亻
    - 丨
    - 丿

回

huí = hu + ei2

to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

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回 = 口 + 囗 : Helga Horse (hu-) smuggled herself into the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (-ei2). She covered herself in an enclosure (囗) full of mandarins (口). Unfortunately, she missed one little detail: The box full of mandarins is to be shipped back (回) to China soon.

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彳

chì = ch + Ø4

step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

Add a new mnemonic for 彳 = 丿 + 亻

彳 = 丿 + 亻 : Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.

Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.

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